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Sander's trial in Manchester, New Hampshire, enters its second week today, with a detailed study of the last living minutes of Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto on the schedule. Sander has admitted injecting air into Mrs. Borroto's veins. The defense Friday began its attempt to prove she died of cancer a few minutes before the injection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woodbury Raises Money for Sander | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Abbie Borroto was caught in a slow, wrenching, inexorable process; she was dying of cancer. She was a woman of 59, the mother of two daughters, a member of the" Manchester (N.H.) Grace Episcopal Church. As she lay in the neat, white bed in Hillsboro County Hospital, wasted from 140 to 80 pounds, there was nothing left for her but to wait in agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: 40 cc. of Air | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...record. He signed her death certificate, and left. Last week, 25 days later, a nurse at the hospital read the record, noted the lethal injection, reported to her superiors. Hospital officials reported to the authorities'. Confronted by the sheriff, Dr. Sander calmly admitted that he had caused Mrs. Borroto's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: 40 cc. of Air | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Indiscretion? Manchester did not seem to know how to react to the baffling news. One of Mrs. Borroto's brothers said: "As far as I am concerned [her suffering] should have been left to the will of God." Another brother told reporters: "Now that she is gone, she is better off." The woman's husband, a small, tight-lipped oil salesman, typed out a statement, referred to the doctor as a "wonderful man" and added: "I cannot believe that he is in any way to be blamed for my wife's passing." Doctor Sander had dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: 40 cc. of Air | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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