JEALOUS LOVER'S ACT
CRUEL AND BARBAROUS MURDER. LONDON. February 12. Eugene De Vere, aged twenty-live, has been found guilty of tho murder of Polly W alker, aged seventeen, with whom lie had been keeping company, and who was found dead on her bed in her mother’s bouse at Camden Town on New Year’s Eve, having been strangled with her own stockings. Accused, who yesterday confessed that-he bad killed the girl in a fit of jealousy and temper, was sentenced to death, but lie may escape the scaffold mainly on account of his injured finger. which he said Polly bit during their quarrel. The jury recommended him to mercy on.tho ground of strong provocation, and also of his peculiar mentality.
A doctor gave evidence to the effect that the injury probably caused accused very acute pain, and bis counsel urged Polly’s fickleness as a mitigating factor. The judge, in summing up, said the provocation must have been more than flesh and blood could stand before it would justify a verdict of manslaughter. Polly was only a girl, and had a perfect right to change her mbid. In passing sentence, the judge said it was a cruel and barbarous murder of a defenceless child.
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Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 2
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202JEALOUS LOVER'S ACT Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 2
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