SAVED FROM DEATH
BY DAUGHTER’S CONFESSION. NEW YORK, November 20. At Ashland, Mississippi, six months ago Arthur Drew, aged 30, was found dead from a pistol shot. His father-in-law, George Gunter, was arrested and, although he vigorously denied the crime, he was condemned to be hanged. The prosecution produced an eyewitness in Grunter’s grandchild, Dorothy, aged eight. “I saw granddaddy shoot daddy,” was the simple story. No cross-examiner could shake her. In the shadow of the gallows Gunter’s life was saved by his own daughter, Pearl, who confessed that she had killed her husband, but had coached her little daughter until the false evidence could not be‘shaken in Court.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1929, Page 3
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