LOVE INTRIGUE
MURDER SEQUEL 'For the second time in three months a woman was sentenced to death for murder in the Canadian province of Ontario. A jury at Pembroke found Mrs Mary Cowan guilty of murdering her husband, Albert ( Cowan. She was condemned to death in company with Cowan's 17-year-old brother, Allan. If Allan Cowan goes to the scaffold on February 27 he will be the youngest murderer to be executed in Canada since the Confederation in 1867. The murder was the outcome of a love intrigue between Mrs Cowan and the boy. Evidence showed that the woman, whom physicians stigmatised as "a moron with the mental capacity of a child of nine," repeatedly prompted Allan to murder his brother, finalling handing him a cartridge to fit a rifle which the doy stole from a boatman.
Love letters of the pair read in court showed how Mrs Cowan's love gradually turned from her husband to his brother. Allan declared he shot his brother "because Albert had not been good to Mary." When he was arrested the police found marbles and a tin whistle in his pocket.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22808, 18 February 1936, Page 15
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186LOVE INTRIGUE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22808, 18 February 1936, Page 15
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