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PRISONERS AWAITING EXECUTION. COMPLICITY IN COVENTRY EXPLOSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. DUBLIN, February 4. A large meeting in Mansion House under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, Mrs Tom Clarke, urged the better elements of the British people and Cabinet to exercise wise statesmanship by reprieving the two. Irishmen, Barnes and Richards, who are awaiting execution at Birmingham gaol because of their complicity in the Coventry explosion. FIAT REFUSED. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DECISION. (Received This Day. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, February 5. The Attorney-General refused a fiat allowing the House of Lords to deal with the case of the Irishmen, Barnes and Richards, who are under sentence of death at Birmingham Gaol.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1940, Page 5
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110REPRIEVE URGED Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1940, Page 5
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