POISONED HER LOVER
WOMAN DOCTOR'S CRIME
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
• VANCOTJVEK, March 3. After* a sensational trial extending over five weeks, Dr. Sara' Euth Dean, of Greenwood, Mississippi, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for serving a mercury cocktail to her lover, Dr. Kennedy. They were having a final party, after which Kennedy intended to remarry his divorced wife. Tho telephone rang, and while Kennedy answered his companion slipped poison into his drink. A few actors later Kennedy collapsed while conducting an appendicitis operation. , Accused, who is a very handsome* woman, aged 33, was a brilliant specialist in children's diseases. She won the highest honours of any woman, graduate ever turned out of the Virginia. Medical College. Dr. Kennedy was heavily " insured, and it was the contention of accused's attorneys that Dr. Kennedy's wife sought "to convict her partly for revenge and partly to secure a double indemnity through insurance, if it was proved that he. met his death byhomicide.
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Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 9
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159POISONED HER LOVER Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 9
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