ATTACK ON PORTER.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTID. DECISION BY GOVERNMENT. United Press Assn—Else. Tel. CONNI'M SYDNEY, May 5. The Minister of Justice, Mr L. O. ‘Martln. announced in the Legislative Assembly to-day that the Cabinet had recommended the Executive Council to commute the death sentence “recorded" against Frank Howard Jones—convicted on a. charge of wounding Allan Clarke, a railway porter—4o im—prisonment for the term of his natural life. Mr Martin said the Government hfid given very full consideration to fresh evidence brought forward on behalf of Jones. Also it had obtained the opinion of three King‘s Counsellors as to whether the recording of a death sentence was tantamount to reprieve. ‘One such opinion was that. the Execu—tive Council could legally and validly proceed either to carry out the death sentence or to commute it. However, in all the surrounding circumstances, the Cabinet had decided to recommend the commutation of the death sentence. The Minister said he had no statement to make in regard to Edwin John Hickey, the youth condemned to death liar the murder of Mr Montague Hen‘wood, formerly Conciliation Commislsioner.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19878, 6 May 1936, Page 7
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181ATTACK ON PORTER. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19878, 6 May 1936, Page 7
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