BABY MURDER CASE
WOMAN’S SENTENCE COMMUTED.
MARRIAGE OFFERS RECEIVED.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Melbourne, April 10.
The Victorian Executive Council has commuted to three years’ imprisonment the sentence of death passed on- Mary Stevens. Since she has been in gaol Stevens has received two offers of marriage.
A cable on March 26 stated that for the first time for many years in Victoria a woman was sentenced to death when Mary Alice Stevens, aged 23, was convicted of having drowned her 13-months-old baby. It was stated that a young man had agreed to marry Stevens, but he refused to keep another man’s child.
Stevens said she had no intention of killing the child. She had arranged to have it adopted, but after waiting hours for the woman who was going to take it she became ill and desperate, and she could not rmember what she did later. The jury strongly recommended mercy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1935, Page 5
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