MURDER TRIAL
FOUND GUILTY
THE DEATH SENTENCE.
(Per Press Association — Copyright.)
. NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 16.
At the murder trial, after he -was convicted, the sentence of death was passed by Mr Justice Reed on Huberu Cedric Jepson, for the murder of his wife and two sons, aged 12 years and 18 months, respectively. The jury made a strong recommendation to mercy.
Jepson gave no visible display of emotion when the sentence was passed. He had nothing to say.
It was early in the' morning of September loth that Jepson walked into the watchhouse and announced to a constable that he had killed his wife and children. He gave the keys of his house to the police, who found Mrs Jepson dead in one room and the infant dead in another, both with wounds in the head inflicted with an axe. In another room was the boy, aged 12, still alive, but terribly wounded. He died next day. At the trial there was a conflict of medical opinion as to Jepson’s sanity.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1932, Page 5
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