MURDER ATTEMPT
TWELVE YEARS’ HARD;. LABOUR) (Per Press Association.7-Copyright.) WELLINGTON, May 2. Twelve years’ imprisonment was the, sentence "imposed -'by Mr Justice Reed hi the Supfeifiu Court this afternoon, upon Joint-Conway'Murphy, who was found guilty-of- ■ attempting to murder Mrs -Daisy Heimdal o n - the night of April 2, on the hills, at- Befhampore. .■ ’ '"
-Addressing Murphy, His Honour said:' “You are fortunate your victim did not die for if slfethad, there would have been no question of 'manslaughter, and you Would have had to suffer the extreme penalty • for murder. There was here no sudden unpremeditated attack. In 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.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1934, Page 5
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