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Show A BRUTAL MOTHER. Mrs. Montague Convicted of Causing the Death of One of Her Children and Sentenced to One Year. Dublin, Aprils Mrs. Montague, charged with cruelly treating her children and causing the death of one of them by tyinr her up by the hands in such a way that she strangled to dea'h, was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment for one year at hard labor. Counael for the defense asked the jnry to avoid the influence of the savage outcry against the prisoner. She might have made a mistake in correcting he: children under the stern idea of duty, but that was without criminality. The prisoner wept copioasly as her counsel proceeded to make a sympathetic sympa-thetic appeal to the jury. He said she was the greatest sufferer by the death jof her children and that she was about to become a mother of an eighth child. The verdict was accompanied 'with a recommendation re-commendation to mercy on the ground that the prisoner believed she could influence her children and had acted under a mistaken sense of dut3'. She was sentenced to one year"s imprisonment. |