A MOTHER'S TRAGEDY
KILLED HER INFANT SON ACQUITTED OH GROUND OF INSANITY [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 17.. In the Supremo Court yesterday Elizabeth Ellen Robinson was charged with having, on May 30, at Sumner, murdered her infant boy, Gordon Robert Robinson. _ Air Goodman, her counsel, asked that the court should bo cleared. Air Justice Stringer: “Strictly, perhaps, I have no power to order the court to be cleared. I have authority by law to do that only in the interests of public morality. But I invite people to leave the court in tho interests of humanity, as the case is of a peculiarly distressing kind.” Most of the public present immediately left the court. After hearing evidence by Dr M'Killop, superintendent of Sunnyside Mental Hospital) the jury, at His Honor’s directions, acquitted accused on the specific ground of insanity. Sho was ordered to be detained at Sunnyside in the meantime.
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Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 5
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152A MOTHER'S TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 5
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