SENTENCE COMMUTED.
RECORD SIRUGGLE WITH THE LAW.
Received November ?7, 8.57 ®* ra * NEW, YORK, Nov.'26.a A New .York attorney, named "-Patrick, who was sentenced to death in 1901, for tne murder of Mr Rice, a millionaire, has secured a commutation of hia sentence after ■a record straggle with the law. (for tbr.ee years Patrick's* casa 'was argued before the Court of Appeal, and in Maroh, 1905, the sentence was confirmed. An application was then made for a re-argu-ment, but the court declined to reopen the oase. Accused's counsel nest appealed to a single judge for •a new trial on the ground of newlydiscovered evidence. This was also refused. The next step whs to take the oase before the United States "Supreme Court, and, as our oable 'mentions to-day, five years after he was convicted the sentpnce has 'been commuted.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8297, 28 November 1906, Page 5
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139SENTENCE COMMUTED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8297, 28 November 1906, Page 5
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