Word: gilbert
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...Roswell Gilbert murdered his wife of 51 years. She was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Was it mercy killing or simply killing...
...were only a matter of law, the public would not feel stranded. He killed her, after all. Roswell Gilbert, a 76-year-old retired electronics engineer living in a seaside condominium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., considered murdering his wife Emily for at least a month before shooting her through the head with Luger as she sat on their couch. The Gilberts had been husband and wife for 51 years. They were married in 1934, the year after Calvin Coolidge died, the year after Prohibition was lifted, the year that Hank Aaron was born. At 73, Emily had Alzheimer's disease...
...count, or is kindness alone an excuse for murder? Or age: maybe someone has to be 76 and married 51 years to establish his sincerity. There are an awful lot of old people and long marriages in Florida. A lot of Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis as well. Let Gilbert loose, the fear is, and watch the run on Lugers...
Besides, the matter of mercy killing is getting rough and out of hand. Nobody seems to use poison anymore. In Fort Lauderdale two years ago, a 79-year-old man shot his 62-year-old wife in the stairwell of a hospital; like Emily Gilbert, she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. In San Antonio four years ago, a 69-year-old man shot his 72-year-old brother to death in a nursing home. Last June a man in Miami put two bullets in the heart of his three-year-old daughter who lay comatose after a freak accident...
...Alexander Waske, ranked 147th in the world, at the grass-court tune-up in Halle. Still, a Wimbledon win is one of Nadal's goals. "If he can get past the first week and some hot weather helps harden the surface, he has a chance," says tennis coach Brad Gilbert. "Nothing this kid does surprises me." --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/ Paris, Kristina Dell/ New York, Andrea Gerlin/ Halle and Jane Walker/ Madrid