MURDER OF AN INFANT
MOTHER DECLARED INSANE 'United Preo# Aiaoolatlon.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.. In the Supreme Court yesterday Elizabeth Ellen Robinson was charged with having, on May 30, at .Sumner, murdered her infant boy, Gordon Robert Robinson. Air Goodman, her counsel, asked that the Court should he cleared.
•Mr Justice Stringer: “Strictly, perhaps, I have no power to order the Court to he cleared. I have authority by law to do that only in tiie interests of public morality, but I will invite the people to .leave the Court iri the interests of humanity, as the case is of a peculiarly distressing kind.” Most of the public present immediately left tho-Court. After evidence by Dr. AlcKillop, Superintendent of Sunnyside, the jury, at his Honour’s direction, acquitted accused on the specific ground of insanity. She was ordered to be detained at Sunnyside in the meantime.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 17 November 1926, Page 4
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