BAIL REFUSED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 September 1935, Page 9

BAIL REFUSED

UNLICENSED PRACTITIONER SERIOUS CHARGES PREFERRED WOMAN RELEASED'ON SURETIES (By Telegraph— Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. At the conclusion of the hearing of the evidence of the Police Court to day George Frederick Hewer, aged 19, described as a medical practitioner, and Phyllis Shorter, aged 31, a married woman, were both committed by .nr F. Iv. Hunt, S.M., to the Supreme Court for trial on two charges. Both were charged that on July 18, 1935, with intent to procure a certain result they unlawfully caused a girl to take a certain noxious thing containing drugs. The other charge was that on July 93, 1935, they unlawfully used an instrument or other means on a female with intent to procure a certain result.

Both entered picas of not guilty and reserved their defence. Police opposed bail for Shorter, hut this was granted in two sureties of £950 each. Detective-Sergeant Walsh said he would oppose bail for Hewer, who could be committed for trial on two charges, the maximum penalty for which was imprisonment for life. Hewer had been described as a doctor, but had no right to that title. “I am not going to grant him bail,” Mr Hunt said. “He can apply to the Supreme Court and, if the judge likes to grant him bail, all right.”