DEMENTED MOTHER.
ACQUITTED OF MURDER. Christchurch, November 17. In the Supreme Court yesterday, Elizabeth Ellen Robinson was charged with having on May 30, at Sumner, murdered her infant boy, Gordon Robert Robinson. Mr Goodman,-accused’s counsel, asked that the Court should be cleared. Mr Justice Stringer: Strictly perhaps I have no power to order the Court to be cleared. I have authority by law to do that only in the interests of humanity as this ease is of a peculiarly distressing kind.
Most) of the public present immediately left the Court. After evidence by Dr. McKillop, Superintendent of Sunnvside Mentaj Hospital, the jury, at his Honour’s direction, acquitted accused on the specific ground of insanity. She was ordered to be detained at Sunnvside in the meantime.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3564, 18 November 1926, Page 3
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125DEMENTED MOTHER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3564, 18 November 1926, Page 3
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