AVES TRIAL

Grey River Argus, 21 October 1936, Page 5

AVES TRIAL

POLICE REVELATIONS TWENTY LOTS Of Human Remains (Per Press Association). AVELLINGTON, October 20. Further evidence for the Crown was given w'hen the re-trml of Mrs Isabel Annie Aves, also known as Craike married woman, of Hastings, on seven charges of using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage, was continued to-day. The. defence opens to-morrow. A Wellington gir.' su'd that, in June last, she went to Hastings', where Air Cra’ke performed a successful operation on her. She was at Alas fia.ke s home when detect called on June 25. Witness stated Airs Craike told her that the police had found a body in the garden. Airs Crake asked het (witness) to say that she had buried it there, wh ch she had not. AVitnc < s said that she was to pay £35 for the operation. She h:aj paid about £7. The result of the sctirch of Airs Craike’.s premises on June 25 was described by Detective B. Farquharson. of Hastings. Buried :n the ground, adjoining the house he stt'd. the police found the body of an ’nfant. Mrs Craike said \timt she knew nothing about it, and that she could not account for -it. She was arrested inter that. day. . On the following morning, said rue detective, a party of po’ice, removed the body referred to, and also tt foetus from a second hole in a duckpen. In other parts of the section, the police unearthed twenty lots of human foetal remans. Detective K. AV. of Napier produced a book, which, ho said. w«is found in Airs Craike’s house. It showeq various amounts, which _totaled £2.250 CH for the year 1935. The names of a number of prj'ple were also sliown. Constab'e T. Chalmers, of Naper, said that when her house was being searched. Mrs Craike remarked: “It looks a s it they have got me Hus time! ” D'-. P. P- Lvnch. pathologist. of Wellington. sa'd that he was present when the pol ce unearl lied the body of an infant. Tt was buried to a depth of 9 or 10 inches. Tt was surrounded with lime. The appearance of the Rings could only be accounted for bv the infant, which was a female, having breathed durTig delivery, or after birth. The chi'd was four or five weeks premature. AVitnese fwas unable to form '.any opinion as to the cause of death. _ . Evidence in respect of the foota remains was also given by Dr. Lyncn Most of them, ho su'd, were the results of miscarriage or of abort, on in the lator months of pregnancy. This concluded" the ca-c for the Crown.