London, Oct. 22.
What was known as the "mercy murder" trial ended at the Old Bailey to-day in the acquittal of a 20-year~ old typist, Miss Muriel Wilsdon, of Upper Sydenham, who had been in: dicted for matricide.
The proceedings were charged with emotion. The prosecution submitted that defendant gave her mother, Mrs Mildred Wilsdon, "a patient in the Bonstead Mental Hospital, four peppermint creams into which she had introduced a quantity of medina Accused subsequently told of he: action to a doctor at the Hospital adding that she could not bear to sec liber mother linger longer.
The mother died of bronchial pneu-
Ace merey.
Mr. Norman Birkett, xc, moving speech for the defence, contended that the vital link between the administration of medical and bronchial pneumonia, from. which Mrs. Wilsdon died, had not been proved, The jury deliberated for 30 minutes.
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