EXPERTS STRANGE STORY.
Woman Driven to Murder by Suggestion.
A storm of vituperation has arisen from all over the country against the twelve medical experts whose evidence resulted on two separate occasions in the acquittal of Jeanne Weber of child murder. Jeanne Weber’s brother-in-law Charles Weber, has taken action for false witness against one of the doctors who helped to acquit Jeanne Weber of the murder of his child Maurice in 1905. Some of the experts who have been interviewed declare that Jeanne Weber was not responsible for the first six of the seven deaths, and advanced the theory that she was driven mad by the persecution she underwent, and that, believing herself to be a murderess, she strangled the child Poirot.
Jeanne Weber has been closely examined by several doctors in her prison. They can get nothing out of her except the statement that she does not know how the child died. This statement she makes over and over again. A farmer named Joly, with whom she stayed for some days at St. Remy before the murder, says he is ready to marry her, and that he believes her to be innocent.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 4
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193EXPERTS STRANGE STORY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 4
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