DEATH SENTENCES
COMMUTED TO PENAL SERVITUDE. (Received Last Night, 8.45 o'clock.) SYDNEY. January 8. Cabinet has commuted to ten years' penal servitude the death sentence parsed on James Egan, for shooting with intent to kill his wife. Ruth Egan, her sister, Mrs Johnson, and. a man named Clarence Waite.
Tho affray took place in September last.
The death sentence passed on Albert O'Grady, a motor mechanic, who cut the throat of his wife and child on November sth, has been commuted to five vears' penal servitude.
O'Grady's character had been previously good, and the report of the Judge that there was an element of provocation in the case was taken into account.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 9 January 1913, Page 5
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112DEATH SENTENCES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 9 January 1913, Page 5
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