CHARGE OF MURDER.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 131, 29 November 1902, Page 5

CHARGE OF MURDER.

{BT TELBGHAPH— PBESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, 28th November. The case against T. F. Moore, chemist, of Waipawa, and his housekeeper, Mary \Ann Mills, charged at the Magistrate's 'Court with the murder of Lottie Ancell, figed 28, was continued to-day. Evidence was led by the Crown to show that the deceased, wlio was employed as bookkeeper in the Clarendof Hotel, Napier, had left town with the intention of going to Wellington, but broke her journey at Waipawa, where she called at Moore's shop, &aying she was ill. Subsequently olie was found dead in his dental surgery The Crown's v-use was tfiat an illegal operation had been performed, resulting in sudden death. In cross-examination a witness for the prosecution admitted that deceased had intimated to her that she had procured instruments from a chemist at Wellington, which she had used in Napier, and that on the morning she left Napier she felt so 'unwell that she thought she would die. Medical evidence called by the Crown was to the effect thav the appearance of the deceased was consistent with a certain kind of process followed in the performance of an illegal operation. NAPIER, This Day. The hearing of the charge of murder against T. F. Moore and Mary Ann Mills was resumed this morning. Dr. Ross paid that there was nothing ,in the appearance of the body to lead to the conclusion that the deceased, Lottie AnCell, had caused her own death. The cose is proceeding. \