SULPHURIC LOVE
STEWARDESS ACQUITTED LOVER DIED FROM FRIGHT LONDON, Saturday. “I wanted to disfigure him with carbolic, so that he couldn’t go ashore.” This is one of the many remarkable statements which the skipper of the American trader, Captain Fish, declared that Mary Waite, 34, the stewuartless, made to him aboard the ship after she had been accused of murdering Lewis Fisher, the refrigerating engineer, by pouring acid down his throat. Giving evidence at the inquest, Captain Fish said that Waite told him that Fisher had treated her unjustly. There had been a love affair between them, and Fisher was going ashore with another woman. It was his last voyage. Waite said that she had intended to niake a man of him. He was very vain, but the burns would only be effective for 10 days. She had tried not to got the acid into Fisher’s eyes and mouth, she declared, and was surprised when she heard that Fisher was dead. She broke down then. The medical evidence was that death V'fts due to fright syncope, not to the burns. The jury returned a verdict of death bom natural causes after a fright, and that the stewardess had not intended to do Fisher serious harm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 9
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205SULPHURIC LOVE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 9
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