MANY MISFORTUNES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 October 1927, Page 9

MANY MISFORTUNES

LATE EDITION

MARRIED MAN’S TROUBLES. KILLED YOUNGEST CHILD. TO END HER SUFFERINGS. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.10 a.m .to-day. LONDON, Oct. 23. With reference to Mr Justice Bramstone’s remarks on the law of murder see page 5. The case was heard before a jury including three women. The prosecuting counsel said that Davis was the victim of most tragic misfortunes. He enlisted during the war at the age of l(i, by giving a false age. He was demobilised in 1919, married in 1920, and there were several children in quick succession. His wife was an invalid. Davis sold the furniture and took over the housework and care of the children, to whom he was deeply devoted. His wife developed tuberculosis and became permanently bedridden. She died at ■ child-birth. The child developed septic pneumonia and gangrene on the face following measles. Davis refused a neighbour’s assistance and nursed the child all through the nights. Finally he placed the child in a bath and went to the police station and said: “I have drowned my baby; she is better off. I could not bear to see her suffering.”

Medical evidence showed that the child would have died in a few days at the most. —“Sydney Sun.”