A TERRIBLE CHARGE.
AGAINST YOUNG HOUSEMAID. (by telegraph—press ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, Not. 10. The criminal sittings opened this morning. They consist' of two cases, cue of indecent assault on a female, and the other of murder. In the latter, a young woman named Ma,rguerita Elizabeth. Hand, who was employed as a housemaid at an hotel, gave birth to a child, the body being found in a drawer with a piece of clothing tightly constricting its neck. The medical evidence showed that death was due to: asphyxia, following strangulation. True" bids were returned in both cases. Later. At the Supreme Court prisoners sentenced after pleading guilty, were: — : George Sudden (indecent assault on a female), three years’ reformative. treatment.
Norman Augustus Ingle (attempted carnal knowledge, two charges and indecent assqult on a female), five years’ imprisonment.. '
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1924, Page 7
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133A TERRIBLE CHARGE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1924, Page 7
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