Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — KILLS TO END SUFFERING [ARTICLE]

KILLS TO END SUFFERING

Frenchman Says Wife, Who Was Cancer Victim, Implored Him to Slay Her. Paris. —The question whether a husband is Justified in ending the sufferings of a wife afflicted with an incurable disease has again been raised by a case at the village of Sannois in the department of the Seine and Oise. Emile Breguery, formerly a magistrate, sixty years old, killed his wife, five years younger. She became a victim of paralysis and cancer and for many days begged her husband to end her agony. Driyen well nigh mad by the sight of his wife’s sufferings, Mr. Breguery shot her three times in the head. Death was instantaneous. The husband then gave himself up to the police.