SUICIDE OF RUSSIAN GIRL
AIDED BY BROTHER. London, Dec. 20. A message from Moscow states that a young poet, Vladislor Kovalevsky, was sot. free amid the. cheers of a crowded Court, although he pleaded guilty to helping hi s sister to commit suicide. Kovalevsky said that he gave- his sister opium because she was going mad, and ho thought it was better that she should die than become a. lunatic. Brother and sister had been loving companions from childhood. They embraced for a last time, and the girl drank the poison. Kovalevsky then informed the asylum doctor of his act. At the trial he offered to suffer any punishment, but said that be- acted for love. The Public Prosecutor said that the poet Jtad no right to decide a question of life or death. Only (he public was competent to make such: a decision.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8477, 24 December 1923, Page 4
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