RIGHT TO KILL

Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 6

RIGHT TO KILL

THE DELVINGE CASE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL ON NEW ; CHARGE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 23. Mrs Delving© was committed for trial on a new charge_ of murdering her mother, in what is described as the “ right to IdJl ” case. Sir Bernard £pilsbury and Dr Newton both gave evidence that death was duo to exhaustion, succeeding an abdominal operation, but accelerated by arsenic. Both added that the patient could not havo recovered anyhow, as there was sufficient cans© for death without the arsenic.

[Mrs Margaret Delvingo, aged 34, was charged with attempting to lull her-mother, Mrs Margaret Waite, who was in hospital suffering from cancer. The prosecution set out that Mrs Dclvinge visited the ward in the temporary absence of the matron and administered poison. Dr Newton, who was in charge of her mother’s case, ’phoned Mrs Delvingo, saying: “What did you give your mother?” The latter replied; “ I gave her arsenic—about an ounce. I got it from the surgery in tho absence of the dispenser.” A second doctor said that Mrs Delvingo summoned him, and said: “I have given mother arsenic in order to_ save her weeks and months of suffering before her death came.”]