A SENSATIONAL CASE
WOMAN DOCTOR COWICTED ■■ ■;, i'O . ■ - _ SENTENCED TO LIFE!: IMPRISON- . ■•;.':■ t 'MENT.: ' VANCOUVER, March 3. (Received March 4, at 11.5 p.m.) After a five weeks' sensational trial Dr Sara Ruth Dean, of Greenwood (Mississippi), was convicted and tenced to life imprisonment for serving mercury in a cocktail to her lover, Dr Kennedy. They were having a final party, after which Dr Kennedy intended to remarry his divorced wife. The telephone rang, and while Dr Kennedy answered it Ruth slipped the poison into the drink. A few hours later Dr Kennedy collapsed while conducting an appendicitis operation. ,The accused is a very handsome woman, aged 33, and a brilliant specialist in children's, diseases. She was the highest honours Woman graduate ever turned put of the Virginia Medical College. Dr Kennedy's life was heavily. insured, and it; was the contention of Dr Dean's attorneys that Dr Kennedy's wife sought to convict Ruth, to secure the double indemnity insurance if it were proved that 'he met his death by homicide. '■.'".
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 9
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168A SENSATIONAL CASE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 9
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