IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE
THE NAIRN STREET RESERVE SHOOTING. [Pub United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 4. Ernest Devoin was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the manslaughter of Louisa White, whom he had promised to marry, though ho was already married. [Devoin was tried on a. murder charge on Monday last, the jury returning with a verdict of “Guilty of manslaughter” and a recommendation that the maximum penalty therefor should be imposed.] In sentencing Devoin, Air Justice Chapman said tho taek imposed on him was one of satisfying the public conscience. He was satisfied that he was not dealing with an ordinary man, hut with a dangerous man-one who was not fitted to be a'member of the community in which girls such as the deceased lived. The only way to discharge the duty placed on h;in wa.s to_ sentence the prisoner to imprisonment with hard labor for the rest of his life.
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Evening Star, Issue 16236, 4 October 1916, Page 4
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151IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE Evening Star, Issue 16236, 4 October 1916, Page 4
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