ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5007, 30 July 1926, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

“ WICKED AND CALLOUS.”

ACTIONS OF ACCUSED.

Morris Llewellyn Davies (33), salesman, who was convicted at the Darlinghurst Sessions, Sydney, on a charge df shooting at Dorothy Lovat, at Maroubra, on May 3, with intent to murder her, was sentenced to steven years’ penal servitude. The jury had recommended mercy on account of previous good character. His Honour said that the prisoner had posed as a single man to> this young girl, who was a teacher at a school outside Orange. The first time she knew otherwise was when she received a letter from the prisoner’s wife. When the girl taxed prisoner with being married and having two children he denied it, and went to Gippsland, where the girl’s parents were on a visit, to persuade them that the rumour was groundless. When the parents came back from Victoria they had fully established the fact that Davies was married, after which the girl refused to have anything further to do with him. The judge went on to Say that on the night of May 3 prisoner induced the girl to go biut with him on the representation that he wanted to see his dying mother. He todk her to a vacant allotment at Maroubra and pressed a revolver against her body and fired. The bullet was still embedded in the mus.cles bif her back. It was a deliberate attempt to murder her. It was good luck that the prisoner had escaped the charge of actual murder. There were all the elements of murder, except that the girl had lived.