MURDERED DRIVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

MURDERED DRIVER.

HUSBAND AND WIFE GUILTY.

SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Doris McDonald and her husband, George, were sentenced to hang, after a jury had brought in a verdict of guilty at the conclusion of their two weeks' trial for the murder of Adelard Bouchard, Lachine, Quebec, taxi driver.

Doris, who had shown signs of collapse when the jury returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation that clemency be shown her, collapsed weeping and moaning, with her arms about her husband's neck as the judge pronounced the sentence. With some difficulty she was half led, half carried, from the court, and both were returned to the cells they have occupied during the trial.

Throughout the day the former movie actress had heard Justice Walsh charging the jury, first in English, then in French, that only a verdict of guilty of murder or not guilty could be returned. While hour after hour, Justice Walsh reviewed the evidence presented in the case Doris sat with her hands clasping her husband's. The charge of murder was told against the McDonald's, when Bouchard's body was found in a ditch beside the MaloneCaughnawaga Highway near Huntington. Quebec, the day following the crime. Evidence was produced to prove that the McDonald's had hired Bouchard to drive them across the United States border and that they had murdered the man, robbed him and thrown his body into the ditch. They were arrested in Butte, Mont.