Nun released from prison
(NX Prtts A«en.—Copyright) JERSEY CITY, Aug. 3. A Roman Catholic nun imprisoned for refusing to testify at a grand jury murder investigation, was freed yesterday after the murder case had been referred to a juvenile court.
Sister Margaret Murtha, aged 32, a Dominican nun at the St Bonice Convent, Jersey City, had been sentenced to an indefinite prison term for contempt after, refusing tp give evidence about* the death of Mr Harold Conroy, a public school worker.
Her release came when Judge James Rosen remanded to a juvenile court the case against a teen-ager, Louis Cevetello..
The nun told the police on the night ofConro?s death that one of her students had told her that he>had'quarrelled with Mr Conroy, and'had struck him.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32676, 4 August 1971, Page 17
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