A DOCTOR'S CRIME.
At Tlelfast Assizes. Nathaniel Osborne McConnoll. who has carried on nn extensive medical practice In Belfast for twenty years, was found guilty of the murder of Mary •lane Reld, mill worker, aged -Ji! years. whose death tlie Crown alleged was the result of an illegal operation. The Jury j strongly recommended the acchsed to mercy. Asked if be had anything to sayj why judgment of death and execution should not be awarded against him, the prisoner replied that he was certainly taken by surprise nt the result of the Jury's verdict. However, he presumed he must be eonteDt- Any suggestion or appeal he could make to the judge could not be so much on his own behalf as on behalf of his wife and family, a? he was their only breadwinner. They would suffer more than he could. Air. Justice Dodd sentenced the accused! to be executed nt Belfast Prison on Wednesday, April ".3, and intimated that he would submit the jury's recommendation to the .LoTd-Lieutenant.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 111, 10 May 1919, Page 19
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