Killed Imbecile Son

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)

Killed Imbecile Son

LOUIS GREENFIELD was recently acquitted in New York of a charge of murdering his 1 6-year-old imbecile son Jerome, after a jury had taken four hours and four minutes to consider its verdict. Greenfield admitted that he killed his son to end the boy's sufferings. »He and Mrs. Greenfield both told the Court that they had impoverished themselves by their 16-year struggle to provide treatment for their son, always hoping in vain for a cure. When the boy was 10, they said, his mental age was four. At 16 it was only two. "I love my son more than anything else in the world," Greenfield told the Court.

"Night after niglit I would hear a voice from above saying, 'If you love Jerry stop this suffering.' "I tried hard to resist the voice, but one day an unseen hand took hold of me and pulled me to a drug store, where I bought chloroform to end Jerry's life."

<5> <§. INSPECTOR ORTEGA And the Unknown Conspirator, As Shown On Page 8. Ortega knew that Lardo and Giulio were going to meet The Boss. He knew, too, that it would be extremely difficult to trace the two men through the dense crowds that are always wandering along the Strand throughout the evening. So he put a coat of fresh paint on the seat and told every policeman round Trafalgar Square to follow two men with strips of paint on their backs.