FOR HIS NATURAL LIFE.

West Coast Times, 20 November 1914, Page 2

FOR HIS NATURAL LIFE.

ATTEMPT HO MURDER AND SfICIDE.

[Pi-Il PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT],

WELLINGTON, Nov. 19.

At the Supreme Court criminal acssious to-day. William Amos who created a sensation at 102 Clyde Quay on the night of the Kith August by attempting to murder his wife and commit suicide, was sentenced t< imprisonment with hard labour for the term of his natural life on the charge of attempted murder, and /bn 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 life in the community. The sacredness of human life was the basis of civilisation and if it lost this it would go to perdition.