MURDER FOR LOVE.
BROTHER KILLS SISTER. DEATH BEFORE INSANITY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 20, 7.40 p.m. Moscow, Dec. 20. A young poet named Vladislov Kovalevsky was set free amid the cheers of a crowded court, although he pleaded guilty to helping his sister to commit suicide. Kovalevsky said he gave his sister opium because she was going mad, and he thought it was better that she should die than that she should become a lunatic. Brother and sister had been loving companions from childhood. They embraced for the last time and then the girl drank poison and fell into a death sleep. Vladislov then informed the asylum doctor of his act. At the trial he offered to suffer any punishment, but he said he acted for love. The public prosecutor said the poet had no right to decide a question of life and death; only the public was competent to make such a decision.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1923, Page 5
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