THE WANGANUI ABORTION CASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 229, 9 October 1891, Page 2

THE WANGANUI ABORTION CASE.

+_ — , — _• - SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS. [united press association.] Wanganci, October 8. The Supreme Court re-assembled at 10 •'clock this morning. The case for the prosecution against Jaroline Peyman, charged with the murder if Emily Kate Spicer, was continued. Dr Tripe, the nurse, Sergeant-Ma jor Anderson (who arrested the prisoner), the ;aoler, R. M. Gatenby and B. S. Curham, vere all examined without anything new )emg elicited. At the conclusion of Dr Tripe's evidence m argument took place between counsel is to the admissibility of deceased's dying lepositions, Mr- Hogg, for the defence, grounding his objections on a faint hope of recovery m the deceased's mind when the leclaration was made. The Judge ruled that the depositions were admissible. At 12.30 a juror fainted and the Court adjourned for lunch. On the Court re-assembling the deceased's Jeposition was read, which gave a minute description of the operation alleged to have been performed by the accused for procuring an abortion. At the conclusion of the. case for the Crown the accused was placed m the box and made a long statement. She said that the deceased came to her house, and once or twice before May 24th. She gave her name as Copley, and told the accused that ' she was eneiente, and that her lover was not m a position to marry her. The deceased told accused she knew a nurse who had told her many things, and amongst them of a woman she knew who had brought on miscarriages on herself without the aid of medicines. She saw deceased again on the afternoon of May 24, when the latter said that she had been taking Towel's pills and sitting over hot water, and that she had also been to see the nurse she had mentioned, but whose name the accused did not know. She complained of paina m the abdomen, and after some conversation the accused mads an examination which she described very. minutely. She found signs of miscarriage coming on and advised her to go to her mother's. The deceased seemed pleased and left the house. • Tha deceased next saw her on the following Tuesday, the 28th, sitting m her (accused's) house when the latter returned from town. She was looking exceedingly ill, and accused put her to bed, where she remained until her death. Each day's proceedings up to the 4th June, the day of. the death, were given by the accused m detail, anl tha deceased's antipathy shown before the doctors just prior to death, the accused said " arose from the fact that the latter had told the doctor all the details, that the deceased was unmarried, etc., against her will. At the conclusion of a long statement the Court adjourned until 10 to-morrowi the sick juror having got slightly worse.