RIGHT TO KILL.
TO END SUFFERING. ACTRESS SHOOTS HUSBAND. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT Received Julv 29, 9.15 a.m. ‘ PARIS, July 28. Ihe right to kill was the defence of Stanislava. Uminska, a Polish actress, charged with shooting her husband, who was slowly dying from cancer on the liver. Uminska gave her evidence sobbingly, stretching out her arms pleadingly as she said to the magistrate: “I loved him ; I had to kill him to end his sufferings, which were terrible to- see. He continually pleaded with me to kill him, and gave me a revolver. He said a bullet in the mouth would bring instant death. I refused, but when 1 saw his tortures increasing without hope of recovery I shot him when he was sleeping. Svdnev Sun Cables. v ‘
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 July 1924, Page 9
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128RIGHT TO KILL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 July 1924, Page 9
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