Captured: Portraits of Crime 1870-1930 - Flipbook - Page 48
William was found guilty of murder but the jury recommended mercy
due to his youth. As he passed the death sentence on Deakin, Chief
Justice Sir Frederick Darley, remarked that the case was “one of the
most cold-blooded murders that had ever happened in New South Wales”.
On 12 May 1891 the Executive Council commuted Deakin’s death sentence
to fifteen years imprisonment. Deakin was released by special remission
on 14 June 1904 and does not appear again in the NSW Gaol Photographic
Description Books, 1870-1930.
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