A LIFE SENTENCE.
NAIRN STREET MURDER. PUNISHMENT OF DEVOIN. Frets Association. WELLINGTON, October 4. Ernest Devoin has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for tbc manslaughter of Louisa White, whom he had promised to marry, though he was already married. In sentencing Devoin Mr Justice Chapman said the task imposed on him was one of satisfying the public conscience. He was satisfied he was not dealing with an ordinary man but with a dangerous man and one not fitted to be a member of the community in which girls such as the deceased lived. The only way to discharge the duty cast on him was to sentence prisoner to imprisonment with hard labour. for the rest of his life.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 827, 4 October 1916, Page 8
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119A LIFE SENTENCE. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 827, 4 October 1916, Page 8
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