ESCAPED NUN DISCHARGED.
ADJUDGED SANE BY DOCTORS. SYDNEY, August 13. j There was a great crowd at the Police Court, where Sister Ligouri, the nun who escaped from a convent at Wagga, was prosecuted on a charge of being insane and without sufficient means of support. Medical experts having adjudged her sane, she was immediately discharged and left with those who ha-vq, befriended her since she escaped, amid a demonstration from the onlookers.— (A. and N.Z.)~ , Sister Ligouri, who went from Wagga to Sydney, took refuge in the house of a Congregational minister until arrested under a warrant issued at the instance of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese.» The information set out that Bridget Partridge, otherwise Sister iLigouri, was a person deemed to be insane and without sufficient means of suport.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19200814.2.33
Bibliographic details
Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 194, 14 August 1920, Page 7
Word Count
133ESCAPED NUN DISCHARGED. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 194, 14 August 1920, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.