SONS BENEFIT
MURDERED MAN’S ESTATE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, June 12. Francis Mawson Rattenby’s will, dated 1929, directed his trustees to pay his wife £7O a month during her lifetime, after which everything was to be divided between the two sons by. his two marriages.
A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned at the inquest on Mrs Alma Victoria Rattenby, aged 31, who had been acquitted on a charge of murdering her 67-year-old husband, Francis Mawson Rattenby, of which crime George I’ercy Stoner, aged 19, was convicted and sentenced to death. Mrs Rattenby’s body was found in the River Stour with six wounds in the region of the heart.
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Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 11
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113SONS BENEFIT Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 11
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