COURT DRAMA
PATHETIC DISCLOSURE
v United l’reso Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, January 17. Old Bailey, which has been the scene of many dramas, provided yet another when Air Justice Charles sentenced to death Airs Olive Wise, thirty-seven years of age.
In a fit of desperation, the woman placed the head of her nine months sou iii a gas oven on Christmas Eve, because she was unable to bear the thought of a foodless Christmas. ■
| Her story is very similar to that of many others. The woman had separated from her husband, and was living with her two children and another man, who desertetd her. She wept throughout her trial. She repeatedly cried out: “I didn’t mean to kill him!” Immediately after the passing of the sentence, the Judge ordered the doors to be closed, and none was allowed to leave, and lie then empanelled a jury of matrons.
Thereupon a doctor gave evidence that the woman was about to become a mother.
The Judge then ordered a stay of the execution of the capital sentence.
The woman was carried in a collapsed state from the dock.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1931, Page 5
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