DOCTOR TO STAND TRIAL
ALLEGED ILLEGAL OPERATION. EVIDENCE OF YOUNG WOMAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, Oct. 20. George Frederick Hewer, aged 39, a doctor, was to-day committed for trial on charges of unlawfully using an instrument upon a young woman, ami of killing her infant male child, thereby committing murder. The young woman concerned said, in evidence," that she arrived from Palmerston North on September 23. saw Hewer, and begged him to do what he could for her. Subsequently she gave him £lO and be performed an operation upon her. The operation was repeated and accused also gave her pills. When she first saw Hewer she told him that an operation had been performed on her about a fortnight before bv a man in Palmerston North.
Cross-examined on this - point, slie said the police did not know of this earlier operation until two days ago. She did not know the man’s name. She wrote to him and be came to her. Accused was allowed bail.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 20 October 1932, Page 7
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165DOCTOR TO STAND TRIAL Hawera Star, Volume LII, 20 October 1932, Page 7
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