AWFUL CRIME

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 5

AWFUL CRIME

MURDER OF CHILDREN UNNATURAL MOTHER’S ACT. FIVE PLACED ON LOG IN RIVER. HUSBAND A DISABLED MAN. I RIDDING OF FAMILY ‘WORRIES. (JJnited Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) MONTREAL, July 22. At Lindsay (Ontario) a charge of murder was laid against Mrs Guy Wallace, wife of a wholly-disabled and gassed invalid war veteran, who placed her five children on a log and sent it afloat in the river.

Three of the children were drowned, two others being taken from the river after they were dead. The woman told a priest that her husband was no good, and she thought to relieve him of family worries.

MAN DROWNS HIS WIFE. CANOE UPSET ON A LAKE. (Received This Day, 1.45 p.m., NEW YORK, July 22. “An American tragedy,” so typical of crime in this country!, is reported ■to have occurred again at Sutton (Massachusetts), where Newell Sherman, aged 26, son of a well-to-do family, and father of two children, a choir singer .and scoutmaster, took his 23-year-old wife canoe riding in Lake Singletary, and after singing “When •I consider the Work of this Hand,” upset the canoe, pushed the franticallyclinging young woman under the water and, when her struggles ceased, swam 200 yards to the shore. He confessed that he hoped to many a 16-year-old girl with Whom he was infatuated. ‘Sherman, sobbing, to-day explained: “When’ I stopped singing the thought to murder her came back to my mind. I must have been crazy.” The crime is considered an almost [perfect parallel to the American tragedy made famous by Theodore Drieser.