SERIOUS CHARGE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 106, 6 May 1924, Page 8

SERIOUS CHARGE

EVIDENCE TAKEN .AT HOSPITAL.

For the purpose of taking evidence in connection with the charge asainst a married woman named Julia Ruddlesden 54 years of age, of unlawfully using an instrument on a domestic servant named Lucy Josephine Pope, a single woman 24 years of age, Mr. E. Page, S.M., with Chief Detective Kemp, a Magistrate's Court Clerk; and Detective' M/Lennan visited the. Wellington Hospital to-day where the depositions of the chief witness for the prosecution were taken T+e lernale accused was present, with a youn°man named Frederick > Raynor Knny° who has to answer to a charge of procuring Ruddlesden to commit the crime . Ihe prosecution was conducted by Chief Detective Kemp, Mr. R. Kennedy appeared lor the male accused, and Mrs.! Ruddlesden was represented by Mr. J F. B. Stevenson. 'An undertaking from the AttorneyGeneral, that, provided the witness Pope gave her evidence truthfully, she would be immune from prosecution, 'was read by the' Chief Detective. r.J h/ ■ 1^ iin' ess PoPe; in answer to the Chief Detective, said she was keeping company with Pinny - i,, January last and that she informed him of her condition. She detailed the arrangements made .by Pinny, for witness to visit the accused Ruddlesden, and described what took place at the latter's house one day last month. Later she became ill and Dr. Luke was sent'for. On the advice of Pinny she told the doctor everything that had happened. . . ° In answer to Mr. Stevenson witness said she had-been known as Mrs Garside for about a year: She had'taken tms> name because she used to co to work and take her little boy. She admitted _ that she had been before the Court in Christchurch on a charge of concealment of birth. , • ■-•,• After the witness had concluded her evidence, the hearing was adjourned, and the accused remanded on bail until to-morrow. 7 . ■ ■ .

The sale by auction of a City Council section at the corner of Waitpa and Hataitai roads yesterday afternoon .probably marked the highest price, £1500, ever paid for a single section of land east <il Mount Victoria. The land has a frontage of 59 feet to Waitoa road, and a depth-frontage of 83 feet 9 inches to Hataitai road, and was purchased by tho council about five years ago for £800 with the intention of its being utilised for the site of a sub-station for Hataitai and Kilbirnie, for the municipal milk department, which scheme was later abandoned. The purchaser was Mr W. J. A. Nesbitt, of Seatoun. road. ' | Messrs. Williams and Co.. Ltd., will .hold an auction salo of nioquettes' and chair coverings at the Auction Mart '' Oouiteuay placo, on Thursday at 2 p.m.