THE PERTH TRAGEDY.
SMART TO BE HANGED. Perth, March i. The Executive Council has decided that Smart shall be hanged on Tuesday.
Smart was found guilty on February tytli of the murder of IJthel Harris, who mysteriously disappeared, and whose body was found under a shed near the foundry where Smart worked. In sentencing the prisoner to death, Mr Justice McMillan said he had had a fair trial. Notwithstanding his declaration of innocence, there could he no doubt of his guilt, lie had been found guilty of a crime conceived with deadly deliberation, and executed with unflinching brutality. The callous indifference with which he had taken another woman into his house after the crime showed that he had made up his mind to let nothing stand in the way of his desires, regarding neither the law of God nor man. For a crime such as this there was no hope of mercy in this world. His Honour then passed the death sentence, and Smart was removed apparently in a much shaken condition.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 961, 2 March 1911, Page 2
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172THE PERTH TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 961, 2 March 1911, Page 2
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