I JUST PUT HIM TO SLEEP.
MOTHER AND IMBECILE SON.
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED
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LONDON, Dec.
“ The time may come when it will be legal to send an Imbecile to a merciful death,” said Mr Justice Goddard at Leeds, when sentencing to death Mrs May Brownhill for the murder of her 30-year-old son. The evidence in the case, which counsel for the prosecution and defence described as the most pitiful that had ever come before that Court, showed that accused bad slept In the same room as her imbecile son since bis birth, but when she found that she must undergo a dangerous operation, she decided to kill him rather than leave him lo the mercy of the. world. She gave him 100 aspirins and put a gas. pipe in his mouth. When siie was charged with maliciously killing, she told a detective, “ I was not malicious. I just put my boy asleep.” The judge agreed with the jury's strongest possible recommendation to mercy. Accused, when sentenced, declared, “ I did it in mercy.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19430, 3 December 1934, Page 7
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