MERCURY IN COCKTAIL.
SENSATIONAL AMERICAN TRIAL. WOMAN DOCTOR CON VI IT HI) Maneuver, March d. After a sensational trial, lasting five weeks, Dr Sara Ruth Dean, (>!' Crceuwood (Mississippi) was convicted aiul sentenced to life imprisonment fur serving mercury in a cocktail to her lover. Dr Kennedy. They were having a final part}. after which Dr Ki nnoly inended to remarry his divorced wife. The telephone rang, and while I )r Kenm dy answered it Dean slipped the poison into findrink. A few hours later Dr Kennedy collapsed while conducting an appendicitis operation. The accused is a very handsome woman, aged .'ld, and a Drillian* specialist in children’s diseases She was the highest honours woman graduate ever turned out o! the Virginia Medical College. Dr Kennedy’s life was luavih insured, and it was the contention ol Dr Dean’s attorneys that Dr
Kennedy’s wife sought to convict Dr Dean, partly to secure the double indemnity insurance if it were prov>‘d that he met his death bv homicide.
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Mt Benger Mail, 7 March 1934, Page 3
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