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SENTENCED TO DEATH.
prisoners Appeal fails.
Victim Joins Sympathisers. ^
.SYDNEY,. Dec. 20.— The. Court of Cri
minal ; Appeal : dismissed to-day the ap
plication, iriadeon.behalf of Martin Jacob
son for leave to .appeal -against his con
yicuon on, yecemoer »-on a cnarge ,oi nav
ing . committed a capital -offence on. Jo
sephine Lamont, at; Woy- Woy, forvwhich
he was sentenced to death, i ' * '?
, The Chief Justice (Sir; Philip Street),,
who delivered the judgment. of the Court,
said^.that the fresh. evidence, tendered was
principally on affidavit by a doctor and. did
not. differ materially from that ' appearing
in the depositions in the lower' Court. It
would- not have' influenced- the jury.
' There is much public -interest at Woy
Woy in 'this case.: Jacobson, a' milk ven
dor, is well known in the town and dis
?trict .and -lias -many ? sympathisers. ' A
.public petition was prepared' on his be-,
half 'and. money had been subscribed to.
defend him in the hope of a fresh trial.
Miss Lamont ? signed the petition for.
mercy to be shown ;to Jacobson. The young
Tvoman was .formerly Jacobson's fiancee. ?
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