Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Thursday 23 September 1954, page 5

SENTENCE COMMUTED IN
THALLIUM POISONING.

"LIFE"FOR
GRILLS.
MRS State Cabinet has commutedto
imprisonment
life the death sentence
passed on CarolineGrills.
Mrs.
Then, on October15,
Grills, 63, was found sentenced
she was to
guilty last October ot another charge
administered death on
having thalsister-in-law, administering
thal
lium to her lium to Mrs. Lundberg.
Mrs. Eveline Lundberg,
with intent to murder. As a first offender, Mrs.
Originallyshe Grills has been carrying
was cleaning duties in
chargedwith four thal out
hospital.
lium murders and three Long Bay jail
attempted murders.
years
All the people con 14
cerned, except one, She will now serve
were family connec
marriage. about 14 years, which,
tions by
The events which led underprison rules, is re
charges garded as normal expec
to the took place tation
of lifeat her pre
between November 30,
sent age.
1947, and June 1, last sentence will
The be
year.
served in Long Bay
Cleaning Women's Reformatory.
job Mrs. Grills, formerly
On August21 last year Gerrish St., Glades-
of
Mrs. Grills was sent for ville, is the wife of a
trial on a chargeof mur well-known business man
dering her stepmother, who is a member of the
Christina Louisa Adelaide Real Estate Institute.
Mickleson, 87.
A week later she was
committed for the second Your old car battery
pensioner.
time on a chargeof mur will assist a
dering AngelinaThomas, Ring the Smith Family
BW2728.
January
83, who died on
17, 1948.

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