THE RIGHT TO KILL

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 November 1927, Page 9

THE RIGHT TO KILL

SECOND CASE HEARD.

WOMAN ADMINISTERS POISON. SAVE HER MOTHER SUFFERING. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1 p.m- to-day. LONDON, Nov. 1. Eor the second time within a week the suggestion of the right to kill was raised in court- following a dramatic storv from Tonbri-dgp. Mrs Margaret Delvinge, aged 34, was charged with attempting to kill her mother, Alr-s Margaret Waite, who was in hospital suffering from cancer. The prosecution set out. that Airs Delvinge- visited the ward in the temporary absence of the matron and administered noison. Dr. Newton, who was in charge of her mother’s case, telephoned io Mrs Delvinge saying: “What did vou give your mother?” The latter replied: “I gave her arsenic, about an ounce. T got it from tfyie -surgery in the absence of the dispenser.” A second doctor said that Airs Delvinge summoned him and said : “I have given mother poison in order to save her weeks and month-s of suffering before- death came.” Other medical evidence _ concerned Airs Delyinge’s mental condition. She was committed for trial.