12 YEARS’ HARD LABOR
attempted mubdeb
ASSAULT ON A WOMAN
(Per Yre« Association.) • . A ;, WfcfctiNo TQ$" In.at; h iglt t. ’ . Twelve yells’ imprisonment was: the* sentence imposed'ijy Mr Justice Reed .in the Supremo CoUrt; this at’tejr.iipoij.. upon John Conway Murphy,.* whtr ■ wm?; found guilty' of attempting to nitird.pr Mrs Daisy Heimdal pn’i April 2, on the hills at PerhairtpptC- 1 Addressing Murphy; His. Honor-said: “You are fortunate your yietim «Hd not die, for if she had there would have poea.no question of manslaughter and, you would haye had to Buffprthe extreme penalty for murder.- ' There was hero ho sudden atr . tack. On your oyrn you secured the necessary weapotnaijd went out vvi|h this, woman with tho intention that, should isho '.pot agree with jyour; request; yoh wotUd' killtar, and, when you left her; you thought you had ’killed her. Tho' least sentence in such, circumstances I.can impose, is 12 years’ imprisonment with hard labor.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 9
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15412 YEARS’ HARD LABOR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 9
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