STRANGE DEFENCE ON MURDER CHARGE.
MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCE ALLEGED. 67 TeleirraDh—Pres« Asßorliitlon—CoDyrlehl Sydney, March 11. Mabel Small has been committed for trial at Cumnock on a charge of murdering her mother, Jane Johnson, on September 11 last. The accused made a written statement to the effect that something told her to remove strychnino from a bottle. She then visited her mother. The latter felt terribly queer, and something told her to put the strychnine in her mother's medicine. The mother subsequently drank a portion and died.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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85STRANGE DEFENCE ON MURDER CHARGE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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