SUICIDE PACT.
ENACTED ON RAILWAY. A GRUESOME TRAGEDY. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 7, 7.30 p.m. London, Dec. 6. Symonds, aged 2<2, a baker, was sentenced to death on a charge of the murder of Martha Wall, aged 15, the daughter of his employer, while both were e.arrying out a pact to commit suicide.
The mutilated body of the girl was found on the railway near Walton, and Symonds was found nearby with his two feet so crushed by a train that both legs had to be amputated at the knees. Symonds was carried into court on a stretcher. He stated in evidence that he changed his mind about committing suicide, and tried to prevent the girl throwing herself in front of the train. That was all he could remember. After he was found guilty the judge pronounced the sentence of death. While being carried out Symonds cried to the crowded court: “I hope some of you people will take this kind of thing up.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1922, Page 3
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169SUICIDE PACT. Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1922, Page 3
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