WELLINGTON MURDER CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5050, 13 June 1895, Page 2

WELLINGTON MURDER CASE.

I VERDICT or MANSLAUGHTER. . b SENTENCE OF TEN TEARS. - Thiß case occupied the Court yesterday. . His Honor's address lasted for an v hour and a quarter. At 5,15 p,m, the jury retired, and returned 40 minutes later with a verdict of manslaughter against the prisoner. ' His Honor in passing sentence Baid it was unnecessary in a case of tins sort to refer to the enormous number of times the prisoner had ", been in the hands of the police for various offences, The evidence that had been adduced showed he was a man who would give way to acts of violence, and had no control over himself, arid no pity for' this poor unfortunate woman, who was really beaten to death by hiuij although the ' ' actual external injuries were not very severe. He thought thero was a difference between this case and one in which a deadly instrument was used, and there was sorao suggestion that the woman was drunk, although he (His Honor) did not think himself. It would be his duty upon v the verdict the jury had found to sentonce the prisoner to a long term of imprisonment. Ho thought on the whole the callousness he exhibited was really worse than the violenco he had used. Ho had loft this woman lying for a day and a half in a state of unconsciousness, and whether he was afraid he would be involved in the crime he knew ho had committed or not, or whether it was mere callousness, it showed a very great hardness of heart. The sentence of the Court was that the prisoner be imprisoned in the Torrace Gaol for ten years with hard ; labor.— N.Z. Times,