MOTHER KILLS HER CHILD
SAD CASE OF INSANITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Nov. 17. In the Supreme Court yesterday Elizabeth Ellen Robinson was charged with having, on May 30, 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 cleared. I have authority by law to do that only in the interests of public morality, but I invite people to leave the court in the interests of humanity, as the case is of a peculiarly distressing kind, Most of the public immediately left the court. After evidence by Dr. McKillop, superintendent of Sunnyside, the jury, at His Honour’s direction, acquitted accused on the specific ground of insanity. She was ordered to be detained at Sunnyside in the meantime.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 7
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