POET KILLS SISTER
DEATH BEFORE LUNACY. UNIQUE DEFENCE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 20, 7.40 p.m.) MOSCOW, December 20. A young poet named Vladislor Kovalevsky, was set free amid the cheers of a crowded court, although he pleaded guilty to helping his sister to commit suicide,. Kovalevsky said he gave hia sister opium because she was going enp/f He thought it better she should die than become a lunatic. Brother aztd sister, who had been loving companions. from .childhood, embraced for the last time, and the girl drank tho poison and fell into a death 6leep. Vladislor then ’informed the asylum doctor of his act. At trial he offered to suffer any punishment, hut said he acted for love. The Public Prosecutor said the poet had no right to decide a question of life and death. Only the public wa3 competent to make such a decision.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11708, 21 December 1923, Page 6
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