SAVED FROM THE GALLOWS.
MOTHER’S FERVID PETITION
As the result of a strongly worded petition addressed to the Home Secretary by the. man’s mother, Thomas Mason, twenty-one, ©f Aston, Birmingham, sentenced' to death for the murder of his sweetheart, has been reprieved.
In her petition the mother, wrote: "My soil does not hunger for life. Most murderers do. My son would like uo join the deceased wherever she iniay be, but it is I and others w'ho know him who tremble to think of an innocent map suffering the extreme penalty of th© law when he is in no way guilty. I am not superstitious, but to put it mildly, it was a remarkable circumstance that all the lights in the court should extinguish themselves when the jury returned with their verdict, which I say was a wrong one. After insufferable delay this unfortunate man was condemned to death in semi-darkness, a candle being placed on either side of him, and similarly so far as th© judge was concerned.' 5
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3434, 27 January 1912, Page 9
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170SAVED FROM THE GALLOWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3434, 27 January 1912, Page 9
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