KILLED HER CHILD
INSANE MOTHER’S ACT ACQUITTED BY JURY. Por Props A'sac’ation. . CHRISTCHURCH, November 17. At the Supreme Court yesterday. Elizabeth Ellen Robinson was charged with having on May 30th, at Sumner, murdered her infant boy, Gordon Robert Robinson. Mr Goodman, her counsel, asked that the court should be cleared. Mr Justice Stringer: “Strictly perhaps I have no power to order the court to be oleared. I have authority by law to do that only in* the interests of public morality, but I invite the people to leave the court in the interests of humanity, as the case is of a peculiarly distressing kind.” Most of the people present immediately left the court. After evidence by Dr. McKillop, superintendent of Sunnyside Mental Asylum, the jury, at his Honour’s direction, acquitted the accused on the specific ground of insanity. She was ordered to be detained at Sunnyside in the meantime.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 6
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149KILLED HER CHILD New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 6
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