THE PAGET MURDER
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
Press Association,
WELLINGTON, last night.
Claude Paget, who was sentenced to death for tho murder of Eleanor Axup, is not to suffer tho extreme penalty of tho law. Cabinet, after giving full consideration to the recommendation of the jury that the prisoner was an epileptic and was in one of the stages of epilepsy when he committed the deed, advised the Governor to commute the sentence. This has been done, and Paget is to be imprisoned for tho term of his natural life.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 30 May 1907, Page 1
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89THE PAGET MURDER Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 30 May 1907, Page 1
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