PARENTS CONVICTED
Manslaughter of Children London, May 6. Percy and Lilian Davis, a married couple, were found guilty of the manslaughter of their two children, and each was sentenced to 12 months’ imprison incur. Percy and Lilian Davis were charged on April 4 witli the manslaughter of their two baby sone, aged three years and 19 months respectively, at Feltham. Middlesex. It was stated that after quarrels in which a separation was discussed the hueband left home for work and hie wife packed up some clothes and put the children to bed. She left n note for her husband saying she was not returning. The wife went to a married sister and later obtained work. The husband, after his day’s work, took lodging and did not return to hie old home until 14 days later, when he found the children dead in a bedroom m which there were signs of disorder. By a coincidence the wife called at the houec on the mine day to see the children.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 12
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168PARENTS CONVICTED Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 12
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