WIFE'S RIGHT TO KILL
HUSBAND WHO WAS StOWtT DYING.
PARIS, August 2D. j "Tlie right to kill" was argued in the French courts yesterday, when Mme. Stanislawa. Uminska, a Polish actress, I was charged with having shot her husband, a novelist, when he was lying in a Paris hospital dying from cancer of the liver. She was told she would not be detained, as is the invariable chsc with persons accused'of homicide. "He -Was the only man I ever loved," she sobbed, "and I had to kill him. "It is so terrible," she continued, stretching out her hands to the tnagis- ! trate, "to see one's loved one suffering as he did. So many times he pleaded '■ with mc to kill him. He gave mc his revolver and tod mc that a bullet in the mouth would bring instant death. I refused, but there he. was lying helpless on his bed and suffering torture, which grew worse day by day, and finally, when one day he was asleep, I realised that when he woke Up it would be only to suffer again. I knew death Was inevitable, and so I shot him." i, - l
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 211, 5 September 1924, Page 5
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