A MURDERER’S LEGACY.
A peculiar application was made to Mr Greenwood, stipendiary magistrate at Stoke, on behalf of the family of a man named Hollis, sentenced to death at the Stafford assizes in 1882, for the murder of a woman named Mary Ann Wood. Hollis, who was a chemist, practising at Stoke, was found guilty of causing the death of Wood by the use of unlawful instruments. The death sentence of Hollis was commuted to one of penal servitude for life, which sentence he is now undergoing. Under the will of his grandfather he has lately been left a considerable sum of money, and this it w’as sought to obtain ,hj r the use of his wife and children, who, since the sentence, have, it is stated, been comparatively destitute. The court, after hearing evidence, made an order accordingly.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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139A MURDERER’S LEGACY. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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