SERIOUS CHARGES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 5

SERIOUS CHARGES.

USE OF INSTRUMENT.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRKBR ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, May 6. A party consisting of Mr. E. Page, S.M.. Chief-Detective Kemp, and the clerk of the court visited the Wellington hospital to-day to take depositions in the case in which Julia Ruddlesden is charged with unlawfully using an instrument on a single woman, Josephine Pope, and a young man, Rory Pinny, is charged with procuring Ruddlesden to commit a crime.

Miss Pope, in evidence, said the accused Pinny was. responsible for her condition. Pinny made arrangements and -witness visited Euddlesden, who performed an operation. She later became ill. and on the advice of Pinny admitted everything to Dr. Luke, who ordered her removal to hospital. After the witness had completed her evidence the hearing was adjourned and the accused were remanded.