HANGED IN GAOL
MILLIONAIRE'S END
DETROIT, Oct, 10. Russell Scott, a former Canadian millionaire contractor, who killed a Detroit, druggist five years, ago. during, a. robbery; committed suicide in his prison cell and vindicated the theory of insanity that his- lawyers had-failed to prove in court. First confessing to the crime, and then pleading not guilty, Scott was convicted, but was reprieved three times, escaping execution by minutes. A year ago counsel pressed the insanity plea, but the-police scoffed at this method of cheating the gallows. Scott vindicated his theory, however, by hanging himself with his suspenders, ami the coroner's jury charitably gave a verdict that ho killed himself while insane.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 11
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