MEANT MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 5

MEANT MURDER

12 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR • ATTACK OH WOMAN [Per L'kited Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 2. Twelve years’ imprisonment was the sentence imposed by Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court this afternoon upon John Conway Murphy, who had been found guilty of attempting to murder Mrs Daisy Heimdal on the night of April 2 on the hills at Berhampore. ' TT Addressing Murphy, His Honour said: “You are fortunate that your victim did not die, for, if she ,had, there would have been no question or manslaughter, and you would have had to suffer the extreme penalty for murder. There was here no sudden unpremeditated attack. On your own admission you secured the necessary weapon and went out with this woman with the intention that, should she not agree with your request, you would kill her, and, when you left her, you thought you had killed her. The least •sentence "in such circumstances I can impose is twelve years’ imprisonment, with hard labour.”