The Ormondville Tragedy.
SENTENCE ON THE ACCUSED.
(Napier Telegraph.) The jury, after an absence of fifteen, minutes, returned with a verdict of wilful murder. ; Hi« Honor then assumed the black cap, and addressed prisoner as follows: — " Rowland Herbert Edwards, yon have been found .guilty by the jury sifter, a. patient trial, and after an ablo deff-npe designed to establish your insanity, of committing the crime with which you have been charged. ' The verdict of the jury is that you are guilty of wilful murder. Itia not: for me to harxow. your feelings by referrinff to the ; atrocious nature of the crime you have committed. There is ho doubt m my mind that your'« is 6he> of the long list of case* caused vfery immediately by intemperance. If. is a w»d thing to con i emplate, but if people will 'give way. to that vice they cannot know whei'e it will end.. As 1^ said, it is no^ duty -61: mine to enlarge 'upon the grave nature of your crime, but only to pronounce, m the name of the law, the dread sentence that is attached to the cri> c of wiHul Tnurder." ; v His HonOr then passed the sentence of (lea Hi,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 171, 17 June 1884, Page 2
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202The Ormondville Tragedy. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 171, 17 June 1884, Page 2
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