AN OUNCE OF ARSENIC
HOSPITAL SENSATION WANTED TO SAVE HER MOTHER SUFFERING (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Nov. 1. For the second time within a week the suggestion of the right to kill was raised in court following a dramatic story from Tonbridge. Mrs Margaret Delvinge, aged 34, was charged with attempting to kill her mother. Airs Margaret Waite, who was in hospital suffering from cancer. The prosecution set out that Mrs Delvinge visited the ward in the temporary absence of the matron, and administered poison. Dr. Newton, who was in charge of her mother’s case, ’phoned accused, saying: “What did you give your mother?” The latter replied: “I gave her arsenic, about an ounce. I got it from the surgery in the absence of the dispenser.” A second doctor said that Mrs Delvinge summoned him and said: “I have given mother arsenic in order to save her weeks and months of suffering before death came.” Other medical evidence concerned accused ’s mental condition. She was committed for trial.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 7
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167AN OUNCE OF ARSENIC Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 7
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