THE ROLL OF HONOR

Evening Star, Issue 16237, 5 October 1916, Page 1

THE ROLL OF HONOR

THE Will ,Isd,g\ M’OOdXd (Ad-; DEVOIN’S PART. In opening the c.v-e foe the- I'io.v.i at Wellington on jicmik.y .Ur Meredith mid that the unfortunate woman Loui.-u While was shot in the Nairn si re. t ivmtvo ou March 27. Somewhere .■ ,ut. in-, \,;irs ago accused became -;c 4 u„Li; o< 1 V,hh Louisa V, into, and v,m;i Kr ahocti i,ls. They became encaged, ami wore on m-.-i! for about two yoais. ' Whih* . oyay-h 'to Louisa White the accused married another woman in Auckland in October, Rib but -Miss White and her people v. me not aware ol that. .\n s jicvoin was in W dli.i»i, iu about a mouth dei'ioc liie tragedy. 'Vmvoiu bad separated tmr« ids wife, but went with her to a isgi-ti v odico to -uv that he bad tin objee;ion l-‘. bar taking a situation. Tbe >!;•;; Ling t.,ok i 1;,... Monday, and the m-.i.ia-.w of 'b<■■■■-iii to Louisa White had b.vn fixer! tl..j Tbur<day following. T:...i impel- f,.,- ibe im'rriuge were made cm! by hi-,-; V. h:t--. v k!i the assistance o; the c .• e- d. >: time Devoid told \!L. . .j.. ; .... cuts that h- v.,m ; dck. -■- hj ■ while as a matter of !V •, n : , . .. ,gi ness at all at b\c;fo:o. b:;t jad waiter or coo!; ; ,t I;; ir-mi'i. , ;;., marriage w.i-, bolac 1. of looking after cl,- ■. erb; id.-a, i; t Foxton bile Dec on i v,w m W-ilinuMn M be married and .„) i L bomw. iuooii ,t.w,d up, and it was finally a: cm g,- ! that 'Mr Skinner Mi \VP,e:.ia'k.;, tr i .a,, ~;,j go up to Foxton and bad; tfi.. s ; it was arranged that l.e--- • la camid Mr Skinner in Hd-nerhon North, be.*., failed to do so. He sent :l uie g avo In m Woudville instead to v thru be •■■■. Mb; ahim the foil, .wing dev. ile iailm! bi tids also, and came down to \k ibiagt ei \ia tbe Wairarnpa, riaeido;; \d-:'met ,n en the morning of the dav tk.;t ib.e i : h.,,,, took place. Dcvoin calka! at Miss \\ id;,.'.home in Devon stm in (]u> .ati.e’m ,oa, hut there was no oue ionm, ]j,,d'ed in tbe evening, and took lb,, uufortnit.do girl out. Ti.en tin* sboe.thur orw-ni->.•,1 The shots were beard by' residents in the neighborhood. AfteV the ;o-t shot a scream was beard, and a second siiot wm hj. i immcdiaiciv. Miss White was shot in Urn hack, the mdlet lodging in iiie sjiiml "olnmn and paialysing her. Devoid shot Lini.-tdf in the head, the bullet lodging in what is j:;n»v;) as (he .-ilctn pniiinn of the brain. .Mr HclHwell, of tbe Wellington Gas (kjmp.tuv, who was the first to reach the waaim wi’w Louisa White lying at the foot of a big tree, and Devoid on his bn cl; a hour, eight or ten feet away down bill, with a ■evoiver near his outstretched hgmi. •Dcvojii was unconscious!, and there was ;l iml’et wound in the right temple. Thu revolver found bad live chambers, and bad three live cartridges and ic.v > -ju'nt onus. I.onisa White lingered in the hospital for a while, and died on May M. In sentencing Devoid yesterday. Mr Justice Chapman said; “ You, prisoner, took this girl out on. a pretence of taking j K . r for a walk. She was an inimeer.t.'grl, honestly attached to you, and taking’ her out in this way for a walk yon did ;ui act which caused her death. Taking the wi-oio circumstances, I have to consider not what punishment to inflict—because I really do not know how to inflict Punishment--but what measures I must lake to satisfy the conscience of the public and ensure 'our r women in future against a recurrence of your apparently motiveless act. I niso that I am not dealing with an ordinary man. Tarn dealing with a dangerous man, and I will go farther and lay that I am dealing with a man not, fit to be trusted to he a member of the community of which girls such us the deceased form a part. That is tne task imposed on me, and there is only one way of discharging the duty cast upon me. "The sentence p.t Court is that you be imprisoned, . Mr rest oljiour life.”.