RUSSIAN TRAGEDY
POET POISOHS SISTER. DEATH BEFORE MADNESS. Frew Association—By Telegraph— Copyright MOSCOW, December 20, A young poet named Vladislor Kovalevsky was set free amid the cheers of a crowded, court, although ho pleaded guilty to a charge of 'helping his sister to commit suicide. Kovalevsky said he gave his sister opium because she was going mad. He thought it better that she should die than become a lunatic. The brother and sister had been loving companions from childhood. They embraced for the last time. The girl drank the poison and fell nito a death sleep. Vladislor then informed the asylum doctor of his act. At the trial he offered to suffer any fmnbhment, but said he had acted for ove.
The Public Prosecutor said the poet had no right to decide the question of life and death. Only the public was competent to make such a decision.—A. and N.Z. Oablo.
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Evening Star, Issue 18513, 21 December 1923, Page 7
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