ATTACK WITH HATCHET
Daughter’s Confession
DEATH OF MOTHER
(Received August 2, 7.30 p.m.J
New York, August 1
After all-night questioning by the police Gladys MacKnlght, 17-year-old daughter of a prosperous Bayonne (New Jersey) business man, admitted that she had hacked her mother to death with a hatchet while her sweetheart, Donald Wightman, aged IS, held the elder woman helpless. The two youngsters were arrested shortly after they left the scene of the murder. At first the boy Insisted that he killed the woman when she attacked the girl in the kitchen with a knife. Later both broke down and admitted that they came home together, and when the mother refused immediately to prepare a meal the daughter attacked her with a hatchet, Wightman holding the woman's hands as the girl rained blows on her head and body. Police described Gladys as the “coldestblooded person” they had ever seen after, with dry eyes, calmly and even flippantly, she had detailed the crime. The only excuse advanced was that her mother annoyed her.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 263, 3 August 1936, Page 9
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