IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19567, 21 February 1927, Page 11

IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.

! ATTEMPTED MVRDER CASE, j ACCUSED PLEAOS FOR Mcnt>Y | j SENSATION AT NOTTINGHAM. | By Telegraph—Press iaaocaaiiofi—Ccpxnsat. J (Received Feb, 39. 5.16 p.m.? 1 A. «i.d'.N.S. . LONDON. Feb. SB. j There was a seasafiibiial scene at the j JS'ottinghaai. assizes wheti Edgar Smith | was found RBUty oi aiTempt-iag to smxder f Constable Dainty. | 'The evidence showed t£at tlie constable I had. overtakes! Ssuth w has r.»e was sotc-jv i ine and had beec shot ny fcisa. I The nsd-rss said-. '"Ten shot this noI" 3 . j ferraißafe aaa who 'was doing his- 'duty. I Yoi: shot him three times. There is only | one penalty I can indict, namely, penal | servitude for life.''* j Smith reeled 'in the dock juid the [ people in court '.gasped . Presently Smith j recovered and said: . " Can yea nofc j have mercy, if nth. for myself for my f wife!' It is a terrible• a.e-ntence." I ■ The Judge; " It is a tumble i bat yea have don* a terrible thing and I it :? only by the mercy of God you ware | not charged with. morder.".. j : Then the Jadgt* recalled Ccnitabia I Dainty and said to him: " No one could j have blamed you if, seeing that acosed | was au*med and having one bullet through { your body,' • you had ceased to 'try 'to' ! arrest him. Nevertheia»#i however, yon j. took two saore shot« into yoar body fce- | fore you ceased to do your duty. It is | a record of which any man might b» proud "