ILLEGAL OPERATION
Woman To Serve Three Years In Jail By Telegraph—Presfc Association. AUCKLAND, July 26. “Ten years ago you stood trial in this court on a charge of murder following the death of a young woman from blood poisoning after an abortion. You were found not guilty, and I must accept the jury’s verdict that you were innocent,” said Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to Adeline Pyle, a domestic, aged 55, who had been found guilty of using an instrument on a young woman with intent to procure •a miscarriage. “However,” continued his Honour, “that experience should have shown you how dangerous and criminal such acts are. You were, in this case, apparently willing to take the risk, and you cannot expect to be treated leniently now.” The prisoner was sentenced to three years' hard labour. Mr. Noble submitted that there was no evidence that the prisoner carried on such operations regularly. She was a bard worker, and he asked the Court to take into consideration the fact that she had been in custody for two months.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 5
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