TO STAND TRIAL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 3

TO STAND TRIAL

New Plymouth Man On Grave Charge By Telegraph—Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 26. Denying that he unlawfully used an instrument or other means with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman on July 14, a New Plymouth business man was today sent for trial in the Supreme Court after evidence had been heard before Mr. W. H. Woodward. S.M. Suppression of accused’s name was granted on the application of his counsel and ball of £3OO was renewed. Detective-Sergeant E. C. Jan-old was granted a request for suppression ot the name of the woman concerned and that of her husband. The husband of the woman mentioned said she had been pregnant about five months. . She had taken hiedicine and pills in an -insuceessful attempt to bring about a miscarriage He described an interview with accused to make arrangements for accused to see his wife. Witness and his wife went to accused's garage on the evening of July 14, and accused and witness’s wife were in the office of the garage about half an hour. Accused drove them home, after he had received £8 from witness. On the following Sunday his wife was in pain, said witness, and he took her to the surgery of Dr. 1. Faris, Inglewood. The doctor wrote a note admitting her to the New Plymouth Hospital but, before they had readied the surgery gate, his wife said she could go no farther. They returned to the surgery, where witness saw part of the miscarriage and part of an instrument like that produced in Court. Later his wife was taken to hospital. Dr. Faris, who described an examination of tlie woman and a miscarriage, said a male child was stillborn. It was obvious that the miscarriage had been caused by an instrument. Evidence was given by the woman concerned, aged 18 years. She described what she said happened in the locked office in the garage. Other evidence for the police was given by Dr. G. H. Thomson, honorary obstetrician at the New Plymouth Hospital, and police officers who searched accused’s premises.