LIONEL TERRY.
Mr J. Liddel Kelly, a well-known New Zealand journalist, is interesting himself in an endeavour to secure the clemency of the Crown for Lionel Terry, the man with an antiChinese kink who murdered a celestial in the Empire City. The motive which is prompting Mr Kelly is doubtless thoroughly humane. There are, however, very strong reasons why a homicide, should not be liberated upon the community, more particularly when he is insane on a given point. There is no telling where his insanity will break out. It would be a dangerous thing to allow him to be at large, and unless Mr Kelly undertakes to remove him from the Dominion, and to be responsible for his future good behaviour, he can hardly expect the. Grown to exercise its prerogative in such a case.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10192, 20 March 1911, Page 4
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135LIONEL TERRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10192, 20 March 1911, Page 4
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