ATTEMPTED MURDER
MURPHY SENTENCED. TWELVE YEARS’ HARD LABOUR. JUDGE’S SEVERE COMMENT. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Twelve years’ imprisonment was the sentence imposed by Mr Justice Reed, in the Supreme Court yesterday, upon John Conway Murphy, labourer, aged 42 years, who had been found guilty of attempting to murder Mrs Daisy ITeimdal on the night of April 2 on the hills of Berhampore, Addressing the prisoner, His Honour said: “You are fortunate that your victim did not die, for if she had there would have been no question of manslaughter, and you would have had to suffer the extreme penalty for murder. “There is here no sudden, unpremediated attack. On your own admission, you secured the necessary weapon and went out with this woman with the intention that, should she not agree to your request, yon would kill her, and when yon left her you thought yon had killed her, i£ The least sentence in' such circumstances that I can impose,” concluded the judge, “is 12 years with hard labour.’,
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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1934, Page 6
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