CASES AT DUNEDIN.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 32, 7 August 1923, Page 2

CASES AT DUNEDIN.

(SI TBIKORAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATIOK.)

-At fh * DUNEP IN- This Day. . -at the Supreme Court to-day Mr VM 52 !"?i' addresßin S the Grand Jury) ■wid that .here were only three cases to engage their attention. Referring to the abortion charge against James Reynolds Hayne he said that Hayne was making one of his periodical appearances. Other aenons charges are one of rape against Abraham Lind, the missionary, and one Sarah Macfie, a well-known social

Robert George Sutherland, convicted jor breaking, entering, and theft, was released on probation for a term of five years.

James Reynolds Hayne and Elizabeth Simpson Inglis pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawfully using 'an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage It took fifteen minutes to empanel a jury, Mr. Hanlon challenging twelve men and the Crown standing aade twenty-six. A direction was given that the names of the young girl and the man concerned should not be published. J.he Crown Prosecutor, Mr A. S Adams, recounted the allegations,'stressing- the point that the particular operation was dangerous to life. The first witness was the girl concerned, aged twenty-two, w hos e evidence in chief was substantially that given in the l«wer