LOVER POISONED
WOMAN SENT TO GAOL MERCURY COCKTAIL CASE. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, Saturday. After a sensational trial extending over five weeks, Doctor Sara Ruth Dean, of Greenwood, Mississippi, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for serving a mercury cocktail to her lover, Dr. Kennedy. They were having a final party, after which Kennedy intended to rc-marry his divorced wife. The telephone rang, and while Kennedy answered his companion slipped poison into his drink. A few hours later Kennedy collapsed while conducting an appendicitis operation. Accused, who is a very handsome woman, aged 33, was a brilliant specialist in children’s diseases. She was the highest honours woman graduate ever turned out of the Virginia Medical College. Dr. Kennedy was heavily insured, and it was the contention of accused’s attorneys that Dr. Kennedy’s wife sought to convict her partly for revenge and partly to secure a double indemnity through insurance if it was proved that lie met his death by homicide.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 March 1934, Page 5
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