A WOMAN’S CRIME.
BABY THROWN FROM BRIDGE. SENTENCE 01' DEATH COMMUTED. Preaa Association —Bj telegraph —Copyright LONDON, October 23. (Received Oct. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) The sentence of death on the woman Kaslofski has been commuted to imprisonment for life.—A. and N.Z. Cable. How a mother threw her baby into the Thames because she was obsessed with tlio idea that it would grow up a cripple was told at the. Old Bailey on October 19, when a jury found Ada ivaslofsiii, aged 26 years, guilty of murder. The jury added a strong recommendation to mercy. The woman, who burst into tears, had to be removed as the death sentence was being pronounce!. Prosecuting counsel said that the woman was separated from her husband. She entered domestic service, taking the child with her. Misunderstanding -what a doctor had 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, out the passers-by prevented her. She told a friend that without her baby she aad nothing to live for.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19001, 25 October 1923, Page 7
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190A WOMAN’S CRIME. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19001, 25 October 1923, Page 7
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