MOTHER CLEARED.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15313, 14 August 1923, Page 5

MOTHER CLEARED.

A DEATHBED CONFESSION,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. PARIS, August 12. In a hospital at Angers Madame Yaux heard her dying 20-year-old son retract a statement made over a year ago which branded her as the murderess of her husband. The son declared lie was told that if ho did not accuse his mother he would be imprisoned as an accomplice. When Ihe confession was finished the mother lcissed her son as a token of forgiveness. Sergeant-Major Yaux was shot in his homo at the beginning of 1922. The relatives suspected the wife. Both the son and his little sister gave evidence that the mother after a quarrel shot her husband and arranged a revolver lo simulate suicide. The mother was acquitted at the assizes, but her character was ruined and her life rendered unbearable. Now her son at the point of death lias confessed that his father committed suicide.