RIGHT TO KILL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 19

RIGHT TO KILL.

DAUGHTER GIVES MOTHER ARSENIC. SUFFERER NOW DEAD. (BT cable—phbss association— copybight.) UCSTRALIAN AND K.S. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 4th, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, November 3. There has been a dramatic development in the arsenic ease, in which Mrs Delvinge is charged with having given arsenic to her mother, Mrs Waite, when visiting her in hospital, Mrs Waite having since died in a nursing home. ["For the second time within a week," said a cable message from London dated November Ist, "reference to the suggestion of the right to kill was raised in Court, following a dramatic story from Tonbridge. Mrs Margaret Delvinge, aged 34, was charged with attempting to kill her mother, Mrs Margaret Waite, who was in hospital suffering from cancer. The prosecution set that Mrs Delvinge visited the ward iii the temporary absence of the matron, and Administered poison. Dr. Newton, who was in charge of her mother's case, 'phoned Mrs Delviugc, saying: 'What did you give your mother?' Mrs Delvinge replied: ( I gave her arsenic, about an ounce. I got it from the surgery in the absence of the dispenser.' A second doctor said that Mrs Delvinge summoned him and said: 'I have given mother arsenic in order to save her weeks and months of suffering before death came.' Other medical evidence concerned Mrs Delvinge 's mental condition. She was committed for trial."]