THE DEATH SENTENCE.
PLEA IX>R TIMARU MURDERER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Mr. C. S. Thomas, counsel f<sr Reginald Matthews, has communicated with the Minister of Justice with a view to securing commutation of the sentence of death to imprisonment for life. Since tlw death sentence was passed on Matthews he has been in the Paparua prison, where he is under constant watch day and night. Matthews took his sentence with evident signs of ite full import, but he soon regained hit • composure, although maintaining rather a defiant attitude.' He has not spent any time writing, as Eggers did before his execution. Invercargill, Leust Night. A petition is being promoted here praying the Governor-General to commute the dentil sentence passed on •Reginald Matthews, and tKe Minister of Justice has been requested to defer Cabinet’s action pending the presentation of the petition. The condemned man is a native of Invercargill.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1921, Page 5
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150THE DEATH SENTENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1921, Page 5
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