SHOT BY WIFE.
CANCER PATIENT'S DEATH. PLEA OF RIGHT TO KILL. (bt CABLE—PBBSS ASSOCIATION.* oomiGHT.) >tjstbaliak ahd k.z. cablb association PARIS, July 28. . The right to kill was the defence of Mile. Stanislawa ' TJminska, Polish actress, charged with shooting her. husband Jean. Zoznowski, who was- slowly dying oi ; cancer oif the liver. Sflle. pave her evidence sobbingly, stretching out her arms pleadingly to .'.the Magistrate. ... "I loved-him. .1 had to kill him to end his sufferings, which were terrible" to see. He- continually pleaded with mi to kill him, and lie gave me a revolver. He said a- bullet in the mouth would bring' instant deathi I refused, but ' when I . sa>V -torture increasing without hope of recovery, '1 shot him while he whs sleeping.''
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18138, 30 July 1924, Page 10
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