EXPERT'S STRANGE STORY.
WOMAN DRIVES TO MURDER BY • SUGtiEBTIOS. ; A storm.of vituperation has arisen from all over the country against the twelve medical experts whose evidence resulted on two separate occasions in the acquittal of Jeanne Weber of child murder. Jeanne Weber's brother-in-law Charles Weber, has taken action for failsi> witness against one of the doctors who helped to acquit Jeanne Weber of the murder of his child Maurice in 11)05. Some of the experts who hare been interviewed declare that Jeanne Weber was not responsible for the lirst six of the seven death-, and advanced the theory that she was driven mad by the persecution she underwent, and that, believing herself txj be a murderess she strangled the child l'oirof. Jeanne Weber has been closely examined by several doctors in her prison. They can get nothing out of li't except the statement that she does not know how the child died. This statement she makes over and over again. A farmer named Jolv. with whom she stayed for some days al St. Jicniy before the murder. say> lie i< ready to marry her. and that lie believes her to be innocent.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 174, 14 July 1908, Page 4
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192EXPERT'S STRANGE STORY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 174, 14 July 1908, Page 4
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