GIRL'S CONFESSION
MOTHER HACKED TO DEATH
NEW YORK, August 1.
After all-night questioning by the police, Gladys Mac Knight, aged 17 years, daughter of a prosperous Bayonne (New Jersey) business man, admitted that she had hacked her mother to death with a hatchet while her sweetheart, Donald Wightman, aged 18, held the elder woman helpless.
Both were arrested shortly after they left the scene of the murder. At first the boy insisted that he killed the woman when she attacked the girl in the kitchen with a knife. Later both broke down and admitted that they came home together and when the mother refused immediately to prepare a meal the daughter attacked her with a hatchet, Wightman holding the woman's hands as the girl rained blows on her head and body.
Police officers said that Gladys detailed the crime calmly and even flippantly, and with dry eyes, and added that she was the "coldest-blooded person" they had ever seen. The only excuse advanced was that her mother annoyed her.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 9
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169GIRL'S CONFESSION Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 9
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