CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940 — Page 35

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That brings me to the only other three points in

this case.

Let me take the circumstances in which these wounds

were inflicted.

We have the widow's evidence "My husband's younger

brother was sitting down in the kitchen and the little boy

was beside him. I was making puddings that morning" and it

is not altogether surprising that the little boy stopped

playing with his younger brother and came in to see what

the pudding tasted like. He got a bit of it and was sitting

there eating it. Then there was a quarrel. The little boy

said in the first place there was, then there was not and

then he says "there were 'high words' but I don't know what

they were talking about."

We have heard from the widow that there was a quarrel

about 40 cents worth of pork, but we have also been told

that there were deeper things behind this and sometimes it

takes a little spart to set off a large explosion. It is

said here that the immediate cause of the quarrel was the

purchase of 40 cents worth of pork. Then the little boy

said "Step-Mother, uncle has a chopper." Just at or about

that time the step-mother heard words from next door

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where the uncle was. "I will get this chopper and I will

cut you to death." The small boy rushed out and the widow

did not see what happened because she was still busy in

the kitchen, like all good house-wives, tending to her

cooking.

when she did go to see what it was all about she

found this. Her husband was bleeding profusely. After that

she saw three heavy blows with this chopper struck. Her

husband fell to the ground. She had great courage, she

bundled the assailant into his cubicle, shut it up and