AN UNUSUAL CASE.
ALLEGED SUBORNATION
CHARGE AGAINST MRS MACFIE.
Dunedin, August 8. Rosina Sarah Macfie. a well-know n social worker, and a member of the Hospital Board, was charged at the Supreme Court to-day that she attempted to dissuade by threats, bribe, or other corrupt means a witness from giving evidence in the case against James Reynolds Hayn© and Elizabeth Simpsn Inglis, and that she wilfully attempted to obstruct, pervert, and defeat the course of justice by. attempting to dissuade the same witness from giving evidence against Elizabeth Simpson Inglis. Evidence similar to tjjit in the Lower Court wag given. The defence was a complete denial of" the allegations. Evidence was given by accused and another woman whom accused met outside the hospital. The jury were addressed at length by Mr. Hanlon, who submitted that the Crown's evidence was unsatisfactory. The case is proceeding.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 199, 8 August 1923, Page 6
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144AN UNUSUAL CASE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 199, 8 August 1923, Page 6
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