Foreign News: Mother May's Holiday

Dour Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour last week pardoned and set free good Mrs. May Brownhill who was sentenced to Hang after she confessed, "I did put Dennis to sleep with 100 sleeping tablets, and before I left him I did turn on the gas."

The fact that Mother May's Son Dennis was an imbecile, the fact that she had nursed and tended him for 30 years and her words, "I knew I must have an operation and I didn't want Dennis to be without care," have all stirred the well of British sentiment to...

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