Tender Brothers

Charged with helping her mother, Baroness von Dueben, to commit suicide, Mrs. Else Wille Bang pleaded in Copenhagen that the Baroness was suffering from an incurable ailment, explained that she had given her mother poison in the guise of medicine to put her out of her misery. The trial of Mrs. Bang ended month and a half ago. She was sentenced to only three months in jail. Last week long, lean King Christian X sympathetically reviewed the case of his subject Mrs. Bang, pardoned her.

Tender-hearted Christian X is the eldest son of Denmark's late King Frederick VIII, whose second son was elected King of Norway in 1905. Also tender-hearted though of stern appearance, Norway's King Haakon was much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen split his head. But Practical-Joker Jensen had not killed the children, who are alive, well.

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