WOMAN’S STRANGE CRIME.
BABY THROWN INTO THAMES. AFRAID IT WOULD BE A CRIPPLE. Association —By Telegraph—Copyrlgm LONDON, October 20. How a mother threw her baby into the Thames because she was obsessed with the idea that it would grow up a cripple was told at the Old Bailey when a jury found Ada Easlofski, aged 26, guilty of murder. fjhe jury added a strong recommendation o mercy. The woman, who buret into tears, had to bo" removed as the death sentence was being pronounced. Prosecuting counsel said that the woman was separated from her husband. She entered domestic service, taking the child with her. Misunderstanding what the doctor told her she conceived the false idea that the child had infantile paralysis. At midnight on August 26, she was seen to throw the baby over Westminster bridge, afterwards trying to jump in herself, but the passersby prevented her. She told a friend that without her baby she had nothing to live for.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 9
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