"MY DEATH SENTENCE"
MRS. RATTENBY'S SUICIDE
(Received- June 8, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, June 7.
"If I thought it wouid help Stoner I would stay on, but it has been pointed out to me all too vividly that I cannot help him. That's my death sentence," wrote Mrs. Rattenby in a letter addressed, to the governor of Pentpnville prison, and which the Coroner read at the inquest. Another letter disclosed that she had tried to commit suicide under train and bus in London, but there Were too many people about. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind' Was adopted.
After a trial at the-Old Bailey lasting five days, George Percy Stoner, aged 19, was found guilty of murdering Francis Rattenby, aged 67, a retired architect, on March 24. Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenby, aged 31, wife of Francis Rattenby, was previously acquitted, but committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Stour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 11
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