"RIGHT TO KILL."
♦ REMARKABLE ENGLISH CASE. (bt cabijs—raise assocutiow— oopxijoht.) (AUBT&ALUX AND V.Z. CABLB ASSOCUTIOX.) (Received November 28rd, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 23. Mrs Delvinge was committed for trial on a new charge of murdering her mother, in what is described as the "right to kill" case. Sir Bernard Spilsbury snd Dr. Newton both gave evidence that death was due to exhaustion succeeding an abdominal operation, but that it was accelerated by arsenic. Both added that the patient conld not have,recovered anyhow, as there was sufficient cause for death without the arsenic. [A cable dated November Ist statad that Mrs Delvinge, aged 84, was charged with attempting to kill her mother, Mrs Margaret Waite, who was suffering from cancer. The prosecution alleged that Mrs Delvinge gave her mother arsenic, in order to save her from protracted suffering. During the hearing of the case, Mrs Waite died.]
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19166, 24 November 1927, Page 9
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