TO SAVE SUFFERING
WIFE GIVES HUSBAND POISON THEN COMMITS SUICIDE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, November 1. Outspoken comments on the right to die were made at the inquest on Michael and Mrs Stern. The husband was dying of consumption and his wife, 22 years of age, visited the hospital and gave him poison, immediately drinking from the same cup. Stern’s father witnessed the scene, but was ignorant of the contents of the cup. The husband died immediately and the wife two days later, saying: “If I saved him one hour of pain the rest of my life is well lost.” In returning a verdict of murder and suicide, the jury said: “To brand the wife as a murderess when she acted in so brave and self-sacrificing a manner is most difficult for us. Only because the law insists on that form of verdict do we apply the horrible word murder to this act.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22719, 4 November 1935, Page 10
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156TO SAVE SUFFERING Otago Daily Times, Issue 22719, 4 November 1935, Page 10
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