JURY DISAGREES
THIRD TRIAL NOW TO BE HELD
NURSE AND POISONING CHARGES
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AUCKLAND, March 31
Till© re-trial of Nurse Elizabeth Kerr On three charges of administering poison ended to-night.
Th© jury, after a retirement of five and a quarter hours, disagreed. A third trial wa s granted. The accused wag bailed at £SOO.
CRAIG FACES ANOTHER CHARGE. JURY FAILS TO AGREE. SYDNEY, March 31. In the Criminal Court the trial concluded of Eric Craig, on a charge of murdering Bessie O’Connor, aged 17, whose nude, battered body was discovered in. National Park on December 14. The jul‘y who were unable to agree, were locked lip fob the night. Cl*aig, whose clefeffco Was tm alibi, Was sentenced to twenty years’ for manslaughter on March 16, in respect to a similar outrage,
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1933, Page 5
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