COURT IN HOSPITAL WARD
i; ■ ♦ 1 EVIDENCE TAKEN FROM I;;-- PATIENT $; • (PBKSS ASSOCIiHOK TKLSOBAX.) AUCKLAND, September 1. i _A portion of a ward at the Auckland : Hospital was constituted a Magistrate’s Court when the depositions of an elderly Chinese. Lee Jung, aged 85, the victim of an alleged assault and roby„ bery of £137 10s in Myers Park-last , Satoday night, were taken before Mr •v, P. H. Levien. S.M. 1 After.the alleged assault a Maori # woman appeared before the Court on' v Monday and was remanded. Since then the condition of the victim has • caused some anxiety, and it was deemed advisable to take the unusual course of holding a special court in the ward. . The Magistrate sat at the foot of the bed, which was screened off, and a clerk typed the depositions at a table alongside the patient. On the other side stood a Chinese interpreter, . the counsel for the accused and police officers. The accused, Materia Brown, a Maori woman, aged 44, was charged i with stealing from the person of Lee i Jung bn August 27 the sum of £137 ; 10s. The hearing was adjourned.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22805, 2 September 1939, Page 21
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