MURDER FOR MERCY
DOCTOR WHO KILLED HIS DAUGHTER. Nyw Y'ork. The jury, after being out all night in tlie sensational Blaze r murder case, were unable to 'agree on a verdict. The prosecution, thereon, moved that the case he dismissed, and Judge Johnson complied, and discharged Dr Blazer. .It is understood-that the jury stood 11 to 1 for acquittal. Dr. Blazer i s the aged father of a paralysed ' daughter whom he killed to reieve her of her sufferings. His defence was that he murdered her for mercy,” and—pis he was grooving old -—in order not to leave her as a. burden to others. ( The girl, it wa s stated, could not use her arms or legs, she was speechless and without mental processes, and therefore a “mere human husk.”
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 552, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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