TO CHEAT GALLOWS
“SOB SISTER” METHODS GIRL ON TRIAL FOR MURDER MONTREAL, Feb. 28*. The most intense American “sob sister’’ methods are being applied to the case in which Doris McDonald has been sentenced to hang with her husband, George McDonald, for the murder of a taxi-driver last October. Mrs McDonald, a good-looking young actress, married McDonald hastily, and came to Qanada from Buffalo on « bootlegging expedition. She finally assisted her husband to beat the brains out of James Wrinch, whose taxi they wished to steal.
“We arc placing the picture of Doris —happy and innocent American girlhood—before the Canadian authorities,” said the spokesman of a delegation of leading society people .from Buffalo, who have arrived here for the purpose of interviewing the Minister for Justice.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20085, 2 March 1928, Page 8
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