DEATH SENTENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16870, 31 May 1915, Page 6

DEATH SENTENCE.

PASSED ON OPUATIA MURDERER

[Pkr Pbuss Association.] AUCKLAND, May 30. It was not until -1 p.m. yesterday that, the jury found a. verdict of guilty against Norman Edwin Ken Is, in the Supreme Court, on the charge of having murdered Mrs Edith Emma Reals and her infant at Onewhero last February. The jury retired at 11.45 a.m. and returned into Court four hours Inter, when the foreman announced that they had not agreed. Do you think there is any' chance of your agreeing?” asked '■ i.-. Honor the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), “ or is tl'.ere anything T can do to help you in any wav?” “ 1 do not think so, your Honor.” replied the foreman. “It wotUd not be desirable that 1 should say anything.” His Honor: “ Perhaps you may agree if you retire for another half-hour.” '1 lie jury accordingly retired and returned into Court at 4 p.m. * The Registrar asked: “Have you agreed upon your verdict?” The foreman: “Wo have. Guilty.” The Registrar asked Reals if lie had anything to say why sentence of death should not he passed on him. Prisoner made neither movement nor remark.

His Honor then passed sentence of death upon Reals.