THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1960,
Father refused blood transfusion for baby son
Melbourne, Mar. 24.
A doctor said in Conrt today that he told a Jehovah's Witness that his new-born baby would probably suffer brain damage or die if it did not have a blood transfusion.
4 get death sentence for murder in Taipei
The Jehovah's Witness replied rabrequently died," Dr Turner that he could not agree to androi transfusion on religious grounds,
She told him it was rowed dis the doctor said.
Leonard trening for members of the staff father, Alvin The Juhu, 20, letler-press machinist, to watch a baby die, when they to the bad the means of caving ito Ho has plended not guilty
in their hands. his BUM, manslaughter Stephen. The
Dr doctor.
Malcolm Frederich Nasser, said he be lieved the baby's mother hoped
ot
the child would live without transfusions but he tried to persunde ber that the child really needed them.
SOME DANGER
doctor confident"
Cross-examined, the said the way "not about whether he had told the that there was some Jehus
transfusion danger about a
bables died under that some
for
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Taipei, Mar. 24. Four men were sentenced to death today on charges of having murdered a hotel manager in Taipei last July. Two others word sen- tenced to life imprison
transfusion. mant and another—a wo-
Stephen died in Queen Victoria manto 15 years in jail. Hospital on January 8. He was Their victim wa Yao Chia-45 hours old.. when 07. an overseas Chinese Yesterday witnesses said that who had lived for many years Jehu had repeatedly refused
permission
exchange in the Philippines and Butma.
Yuo came to Formosa in 1057 blood transfusion fur Stephen. for a visit, liked it and decided He had to go into business here. Ho forbade it. bought na interes In the Dr Elizabeth Kathleen Turner,
a specialist Wuching Hotel.
In Yao was found dead in his diseases, said that she told the room at the hotel on July 18,father the baby was desperately Jast year, under circumstances and that they might be able suggesting he had hanged him-to save his life l they had an exchange transfusion straight
Jehu said that if the only method of treatment was by ex- change transfusion ho would not condone it,
A coroner quicide.
pronounced him a
SON INSISTS
away.
She
Dr Turner and Jehu asked her if she did not belleve all babies were souls,
Hecklers Stephanie
greet Macleod
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Nairobi, Mar. 24,
on
his
Cries of "traitor" greoted Mr Iain Macleod, the British Colonial Secretary, when he arrived at Nairobi airport today for
brief stop journey to Rhodesia.
handful of Europeans shouted "go back to Scotland,” and "we don't want dictators, black or white" as Mr Macleod walked across the tarmac from
Aftican South
Airways plane.
"I couldn't agree more with thai chap up there," Mr Map- lend said-in reference to the demonstrator's short about dictatorship,
Baird's murderer sentenced to life
Birmingham, Mar. 24.
Patrick Byrne, the killer of nurse Stephanie Baird, whose headless body was found last December in a room at a YWCA hostel here, was found guilty of murder today.
He was serienced imprisonmorg.
to life
The jury took just under an hour
cd to return a verdict guilty.
Sandringham
heath fire