PAEROA TRAGEDY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 5

PAEROA TRAGEDY

(Press Assn.-

a mother's act medical evidence given ' to show woman1 " - . * jnsane :: VERDICT NOT GUILTY i . * ■ ■ r i • t . : ; ■ ■

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Auckland, Wednesday. U The tragic story'of a 'mother's mUrder of her five-year-old Son was reicounted' in th'e SUpreme "Court tb!dhy; tvheri'Daisy Sayner Landef Bu^by, was charged with the nlurder "of her soti B'af ry J at Paeroa on Septem'bei' 2T: - ' - "' * • • i '"""The doctbrs *will say that Mrs. * Busby was suffering' from m'elaneho- : fia ahcT delusions, and was incapable •! of knbwihg the'nature and quality-*of h'ei a'Ct", 'and thht she tvas thereiore [ not criminally responsible,"' said the Crbw'n 'Proseeutor, Mr. Meredith. : i * The eVidefice given' inclu'ded that of Dr. H. M.*'Buchanan, superin'tehdent oi the Mental Hospital, who said that accused ha'd delusi'Ons oi uriwofthiness". She' felf that she 'had been- 'a complete failure in' liie', and a- bad wife and mother. She f elt that she hhd pa's'sed' on her attributes " to her children and beeause bf that her children were liable tb be harmed'hy other p'feople. * It Was for that- reason that she felt it would be better that she should kill them* all than that they shouid uridfergo'future suffering.'"" Witness said" that Mrs. 'Busby was definitely inSahe, and'she "thbught at the "ti'nie of the murder th'at it: wd^ the right thihg" to do. 4 - " ' '* * Exceed'ingly Sad Case | Mr. Justiee Herdni'an said: "It is I an exceedingly " S'ad case. ' 'The jury s will have no difficulty in reaehing the conclusion that accused was insane at the time Of" her Uctioh." J ' r! ' ' The jury, after a short retirement, fourid accUsed fiot guilty," on! « the ground of ihsanity. . The judge dt"d6red that she be kept in custody in prison until the pleasure of the Minister was known.