Show Mrs Hontaznc Gets a lear Dmtix April 4Mrs Montague charged with cruelly treating her children and causing tbe death of one of them by i tieinpr her up by the hands in such a way fI she strangled to death was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment imprison-ment for one year at hard labor Counsel for defense aSKed the jury to avoid the influence of tho savngo outcry against the prisoner She might have toad a mistake in correcting her children under the tern idea of duty but that was without with-out criminality Tho prisoner wept copiously copi-ously as her counsel proceeded to make a sympathetic appeal to the jury Ho said site was the greatest sufferer by the death of her children and she was about to become a mother of an eighth child Tho verdict was accompanied by a recommendation for mercy on the ground that tho prisoner believed she could influence influ-ence tho children and had acted under a mistaken senso of duty |