REMOVING HOPELESS CASES

Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5

REMOVING HOPELESS CASES

JUSTIFIED KILLING SIR CONAN DOYLE’S VIEWS. Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 21. Great interest has been aroused by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s assertion apropos the Davies case that thcic should be a law under which three medical certificates, cheeked by a justice of the peace, would allow of the putting away of a person whose case is hopeless. It would be only humanity and common sense. Sir Arthur Conan Ho vie savs .bo would add, however, that it should be done at the request of tho sulfcrer when lie is capable of making the request. “1 am of tho opinion,” he said, “that terribly deformed children should always be painlessly removed.” f Sonic remarkable comments on the law relating to murder, suggesting uia„ murder may ho justified, were made by Air Justice Branson when addressing the grand jury at Chester on tho indictment of Albert Davies, aged twenty-eight years, for the alleged murder ot his child. “This is a heartrending story of a father driven to distraction by ‘the .sufferings of Ids child, and he takes it upon himself to put au end thereto.” said the judge. “It gives food for thought. Had this poor child been an animal instead of a luuuan being, then instead of this father being blameworthy ho would actually have been to punishment had lie not done it.”J