WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Melbourne. March 25. Por the-first time for many years in Victoria the death sentence was pronounced on a woman. Mary Alice, Stevena, 23. convicted of having drowned her thirteen months old baby, was sentenced to death. It was stated-that a young man had agreed to marry Stevens, but he refused,to keep another man's child. Stevens said that she had no intention of killing the child. She had arranged' • to have it adopted, but after waiting for hours for the woman ?/ho was going to take it, she became ill and desperate and could not remember what she did later. The jury strongly recommended mercy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1935, Page 7
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108WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1935, Page 7
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