SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Sydney, November 21. Thomas Meredith Sheridan, who described himself as president of the British Medical Institute, and was arrested on the charge of having murdered a farmer's daughter named Jessie Nicholl, on whom an illegal operation was performed towards the end of August last, has been convicted and sentenced to death. Sea well, caretaker of the institute, was convicted of being an accessory after tbe fact, and was remanded for sentenoe. The Jadge, in directing the jury in Sheridan's case, pointed out that though in ordinary cases of murder wilfulness must be shown, in this case there waa a special definition, Sheridan waß charged with maliciously causing the death of the young woman, but malice had a special significance in this charge. The law bearing on the mattermeant that the act must be obviously dangerous to human life. If the jury were satisfied the offence bad been committed recklesely, wantonly, or with obvious danger to life, they must bring in a verdict of murder.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 13
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167SENTENCED TO DEATH. Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 13
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