NEW YORK CRIME
WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE NEW YORK, June 18. (Received June 18, at 11.15 p.m.) Mrs Tieman pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and faces a term of from 20 years to life imprisonment. Helen Tiernan, aged 25, a widowed embroidery worker, confessed that she killed her daughter in the woods and attempted to kill her son. Believing both to be dead, she sprinkled petrol about and ignited it, and then fled. She desired to marry again, and believed that the apartment was too small for both the children and her prospective husband. She stated: "I wanted to kill but not hurt them.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 13
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