OPEN VERDICT
GIRL CHARGED WITH KILLING MOTHER (Rec. 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 27. A jury at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, returned an open verdict to-day after a 19-year-old girl had allegedy confessed to the mercy killing of her mother. The jury found that the cause . of death was not shown by the medical 6Vi(1611C6. ( The jury heard a statement allegedly made to the police by the girl, Irene Williamson, declaring that she smothered her 55-year-old mother to end her suffering from cancer. Dr. lan Gilmour Gray, who attended the woman,- Mrs Alice Williamson, said there had been no sign of suffocation, and he had issued a certificate attributing death to cerebral thrombosis (a blood clot in the brain).
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 115, 28 February 1950, Page 3
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116OPEN VERDICT Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 115, 28 February 1950, Page 3
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