SUPREME COURT.
A LIFE SENTENCE. THE WELLINGTON SESSIONS. Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 19. At the Supreme Court criminal sessions, to-day,. William Amos' Mullins, who created a sensation at 102 Clyde Quay on the. night of August 13 by attempting to murder his wife and commit suicide,\ was sentenced to Imprisonment, with hard labour, for the term of his natural life, on the charge of attempted murder, and on the charge of attempted suicide was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.
His Honour remarked that to let the prisoner go would be to risk the life of the community. The sacredness of human life 'was the basis of civilisation, and if it lost this it would go to perdition. John Ryan, for receiving stolen property, was sentenced..to two years' imprisonment.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 245, 19 November 1914, Page 10
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