RIGHT TO KILL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 578, 26 October 1920, Page 2

RIGHT TO KILL.

WIFE iSp AFFECTION. Is it praiseworthy or blameworthy for a wife to kill her husband in oider to save him from pain% It is a delicate problem in.ethics, the pros jmd cons of which ire how being thwiished out by a section of the Paris" Press. J?r In a part of MoiTtmartre—the Montmartre so renolraed for its, nightly gaiety and dissipation—there resided a workman, named Bernard, and his wife. For months Bernard had suffered from a disease which the best medical skill pronounced to •be incurable. Mme: Barnard was his devoted nurse. She did everything/ possible' to assuage his pain, but TcVjp purpose. ~ $B \ His sufferings were intense, : and often, the Daily Chronicle states, the' stricken man begged her, as a further proof of her wifely affection, to put | him out of his misery by ending his life. Mme. Bernard refus§dv "] In the end, however, the poor Woman, half demented by her husband's sufferings, felt that she could no longer resist his pleadings for death, and she determined to end his martyrdom. First of all embracing her husband, and telling him that they together, she seized a revolver, and shot him dead. , .. •«£ Then she turned the weapoif against herself, but her aim was less J sure, and she failed to kill herself outright. She was taken to the hospital dangerously wounded. She begged that the doctor's litre; might- be exercised towards hostepp ing her end rather than prolonging h,er life, as slie had no wish to live low that her husband was dead. 4