NEWS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1940, Page 6

NEWS ITEMS

HID NOTE IN MOUTH

MELBOURNE, .Sept 10,

A £IOO note, which Detective Lynch alleged had been swallowed by a woman was produced in the South Melbourne Court to-day.

- Lynch said that when spoken' to on August 19, ivy Roberts, 45, Barkly Street, St. Hilda, gulped, and said: ‘'You’ll never get it.” , Roberts and Ronald Gordon McDonald, 27, Cobden Street, St. Kilda, were charged with having stolen £*94 and necKtie front Martin Murphy on August 19. After one and a half hours’ treatment by two doctors at Prince Henry's Hospital, Lynch alleged Roberts said: ‘ I’ll give you what you are loosing for,” and took tile note- from her mouth.

She allegedly added; “I .got a fright when that note stuck in my throat, i. thought I would get rid of the evidence.”

Robefts and McDonald reserved their defence, and were committed, lor .trial.

RESCUED FROM LEDGE. SYDNEY, Sep. 10. A 15-year-old girl, marooned yesterday on a rock ledge above,.a 90ft. drop at North Narrobeen, was rescued by a lifesaver. ' Slid,.fell,,.lsft v fipm,.the ,t.pp 0f,a.(,-iifif to the ledge, and. could, not .climb back. The girl’s parents shouted to lifesaver Russell Dunn, who t00k.20 minutes to climb up to the rock lodge from the beach. “Many times I thought I would not make it. There were so many seemingly impassable spots,” sail Dunn. “However, 1 always found a• wav -round.” When Dunn reached the girl, lie , asisted her to the top. He mil without asking the girl’s name; WOMAN CLEARED. SYDNEY, September 10. A dying woman cleared Alice Hunter, 57 from a charge of manslaughter, it was stated in the Coroner’s Court yesterday. The woman was Doris Eileen Pickering, 34, of Erskineville, who died at Crown Street Women’s Hospital on August 17. Alice Hunter, married. of King Street, Newton, was charged with manslaughter, and with having .performed an illegal operation on Pickering. In her dying depositions, read by the Acting Coroner, (Mr Denton). Mrs Pickering said Hunter was not the woman who operated. Airs Pickering, too weak to write, signed her depositions with a cross. .Mr Denton found murder by a woman unknown.

The charges against Hunter were then withdrawn. £IOOO REWARDS. SYDNEY, September 10. The State Government- yesterday inore than trebled rewards offered in connection with two unsolved murders, increased from £3OO to £IOOO each, the. rewards are offered for information leading tc, the conviction of the murderers of Thomas Norman Rutter Hood, 23, and Victoria Moulos, 39. Hood, a taxi-driver, was battered to d.uitil in his taxi at Mascot oil July 26. Moulos, a Greek business man. was found battered to death on the Roseville Road. French s .I’orest, on July 20. Police admit they, are baffled by the two latest murders, but believe some persons -ire in a position to assist if they wished. DRUG ADDICTS. SYDNEY, Sep. 2. The. British Medical. Association had warned hospital doctors against drug addicts, the secretory of the New South Wales branch of the association (Dr JG. Hunter said last night. He was commenting on the notion of Balmain Hospital officials in • refusing on Sunday night to give' a woman an injection of morphia because she was believed to he a drug addict. “Drug addicts can sometimes hoodwing the sympathetic doctor," Dr H.inter said, . 1

A doctor at Balmain Hospital said that the woman who came to the hospital on Sunday night complained of kidney trouble. ■■Her complaint was. diagnosed, and she was admitted to a ward. “When refused an injection of morphia she became very noisy, and kept other patients awake," he added. “She insisted on leaving hospital the next morning.” Doctors at two other large Sydney hospitals—Sydney anil Prince Henrysaid tliev knew of similar cases.