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Show THANK GOD FOR THAW AND RAYNER," HE SAYS LONDON. April 2. The commutation of sentence of death to life imprisonment nf Horace C. Raynor. who killed Williat.i Whi'.ely January 24. is generally approved ap-proved by the newspapers. Advantage is t:iki-n of the opportunity to discover phases of similaritv between the Raynor and Thaw cases. The Sheriff of Hull is reported as saying: "Thank God for a Thaw and a Raynor-, who are prepared to pive their lives to rid the world of such pests to society as White and Whitcly." The cnnmiutatiwn has raised the question ques-tion of the abolition of capital punishment, punish-ment, a bill for which is considered likely f be presented to Parliament before j many days. |