SAVED FROM GALLOWS.
.CHILD COACHED TO LIE.
MOTHER CONFESSES GUILT.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.
'At Ashland, Mississippi, six months ago 'Arthur Drew, agod 30, was found dead from a pistol shot. His father-in-law, Georgo Gunter, was arrested, and, although ho vigorously denied the crime, ire was condemned to be hanged. The prosecution produced an eye-wit-ness in Gnnter's grandchild Dorothy, aged eight. "I saw grandaddy shoot daddy," was the simple story. No cross-examiner could fcliake her. In the shadow of the gallows Gunter's ■life was,saved by his own daughter, Pearl Drew, w'ho cGuh-rsed that she killed her husband, but had coached her little -daughter rfritil tho false evidence could Dot.- be shaken in Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20424, 28 November 1929, Page 12
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