Word: sanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were members of a panel from which the court was trying to select twelve jurors (and an alternate) to try the case of 41-year-old Dr. Hermann Sander for the "mercy killing" last December of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto...
...steam-heated courtroom, the twelve men and alternate sat down to consider the case. The trial had drawn the attention of half the world. On hand were photographers, newsmen, feature writers (among them, Novelists Fannie Hurst and John O'Hara), reporters from London and Paris newspapers. Dr. Sander, lean-faced, pale and expressionless, his busy and respected career interrupted, sat inside the courtroom rail with his wife, the mother of his three children...
Prosecutor Phinney retold the story of the morning of Dec. 4 when Dr. Sander, bending over the wasted figure of Abbie Borroto, 59, told a nurse to bring him a sterile syringe. "He inserted the needle into the vein." Two or three minutes later -"Dr. Sander handed the needle back to the nurse and indicated that Mrs. Borroto was dead ..." A week later he dictated a notation to the record librarian: "Patient was given 10 cc. of air intravenously repeated four times. Expired within ten minutes after this was started...
...Corpus Delicti. State's witness, Sheriff Thomas O'Brien, took the stand. He testified that Dr. Sander, after being confronted with his notation, had told him that Abbie Borroto's anguished husband, Reginald, had pleaded with the doctor to "do something to eliminate his wife's pain, even, if necessary, to eliminate her life." That "Borroto was smoking and drinking coffee all night-he went home and started drinking-he had a bad heart." That Sander "in a weak moment decided...
...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...