Alleged Malpractice.
(By Telegraph.)
(Per Press Association.)
Wellington, This day,
At the hearing of the charge of malpractice against Mrs Stennett, Constance Davis, a girl who gave her age as seventeen, was the principal witness. Under cross-examinatian she said that a writ had been issued by the man who seduced her against her mother for stating that he had seduced witness. Her mother had issued a writ against the man for £SOO for seduction. Both witness and the man w r ere engaged to other persons at the time of the seduction. She admitted that she had told someone that she was really trying to get at the man, and not at the accused. The money she gave the accused had been given her by the man.
Later. Mrs Stennett was committed for trial.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 504, 17 December 1897, Page 2
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134Alleged Malpractice. Hastings Standard, Issue 504, 17 December 1897, Page 2
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