Son Shoots Mother

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 676, 30 May 1929, Page 9

Son Shoots Mother

KILLED HER TO END SUFFERING A REMARKABLE CONFESSION (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.55 a.m. PARIS, Wednesday. Mrs. Corbett, an English resident of Nice, was found shot. “Le Matin’* publishes a remarkable letter written by her son Francis, saying: “A doctor announced in November that my mother was incurably cancerous. Why, then, have I released my mother from awful sufferering? Because the State is unconscious of its duty to hopeless sufferers. There are 45,000 suicides annually in France, and of these half are the result of incurable diseases. It is the State’s duty to kill them if they so request. I fired the shot point blank at my mother’s temple during a sleep induced by a narcotic.” Francis is recovering from a wound allegedly self-inflicted after his mother’s death.