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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8443, 16 May 1907, Page 5

A'Christchurch Press Association telegram states that ,at the Christchurch Supreme Court, yesterday, in the case against' Hehir, alias Smithers, of attempted murder of Nellie Jackson, the jury, after ten minutes' retirement, found the prisoner guilty. The woman's throat was shockingly cut by the prisoner on the night of April sth* His Honour, Mr Justice Chapman, said that the jury would have failed in their duty had they I brought in any other verdict. There 1 were absolutely no mitigating circumstances. If the woman's life had not been saved merely by the skill of the hospital staff accused would have ibeen found guilty of murder, and he could imagine no ground that would 1 have.induced His Majesty's Government to spare his life. He would be failing in the ■ performance of his duty to society where he to pretend to discover any mitigating circumstances. There was but one course open to him, and that was to inflict the highest sentence, -which the law allowed. Accused was sentenced to bejimprisoned with hard labour for the rest of his, life. Fo Children's Hacking Cough at night \ Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is (3d and 2s fid. < "