A TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 5

A TRAGEDY

SON SHOOTS MOTHER. WHO SUFFERED INCURABLE DISEASE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, May 29. Mrs Corbett, an English resident at Nice, was found shot. “ Le Matin ” publishes a remarkable letter written by her son, Francis, saying: “A doctor announced in November that my mother was incurably cancerous. Why then have 1 released my mother from awful .suffering? Be-! cause - the Ktalo p is unconscious of its duty to hopeless sufferers. There are ( forty-live thousand suicides annually j in France and of those half are the! result of incurable disease. It is the State’s duty to kill them if they so request. 1 fired point blank at mother's temple during sleep, induced by a narcotic.” Francis is recovering from a wound allegedly sell-inflicted alter his mother’s death. ELECTION EVE MESSAGE. LONDON, May 29. Mr Lloyd George, in an election eve message, says the nation is wary of Tory recklessness and afraid of Socialist extravagance. The better alternative is the election of a Liberal Government which would energetically enforce its programme for peace and the conquest of unemployment.