DEAD MAN’S MOTHER WON’T TESTIFY
New York, Sept. 26 Mrs Alman Harrington appeared in the Bronx Homicide Court on a charge of killing her husband, who died rfom a bullet in the spine. After telling reporters that she had received letters calling her “another Ruth Snyder,” the widow stated that her husband tied her up with a clothesline, gagged her, made a fork red hot, and placed it against her cheek. ! Mrs Florence Kelly, the dead man’s j mother, said she would not testify against her daughter-in-law, saying: j “Let her live her life. She will suffei j nightmares all the rest of her life.” ; The case was adjourned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 19 October 1942, Page 5
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