THE KEALS MURDER CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 May 1915, Page 2

THE KEALS MURDER CASE.

ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH. PKB PBEBO ASSOCIATION. Auckland, -May 30. It was not until 4 p.m. that the jury found a verdict of guilty against Norma u Edwin Keals, at the Supreme Court, on a charge of having nundored Mrs Edith Emma Keals and her infant at Onewhero. last February. | The jury retired at 11.45 a.m. and returned into Court four hours later, when the foreman announced that they had not agreed. “ I >o you think there is any chance of your agreeing?” asked his Honoi the Chief Justice. Sir Robert Stout, “or is there anything T can do to help

you in any way.' I,“I do not think so, your Honor,” replied the foreman. ‘‘lt would not he desirable I should say anything.”

I His Honor: Perhaps you may agree if you retire for another half-hour. I The jury accordingly retired, and returned into Court at 4 p.m., with a verdict of guilty. [ Prisoner made neither movement Inor remark, and the usher, stepping into the witness-stand, said: “Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye,” and then commanded all men to keep silence whilst the sentence of death was pronounced upon the prisoner at the bai. | Amid a deathlike silence, his Honor, in a low voice, said; “Prisoner at the bar, I have now to pronounce one of the most solemn sentences that one can be pronounced by one man upon another, and, in doing so, I shall follow the form laid down by statute.’’ His Honor then assumed the black cap, and said: “It is that you be taken from this place to gaol, and from thence to the place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you be dead.”