"CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE."

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 11 August 1920, Page 2

"CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE."

[Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, Aug. 10

After a series of vicissitudes unprecedented in the history of criminal trials in New Zealand, the case against James Reynolds Hayne, a Dunedin chemist, charged with unlawfully using an instrument to procure abortion, came to a sudden end this morning. Gladys Batchelor was again placed in the witness-box, but would not reply to any questions. Mr P. C. Macassey, the Crown Prosecutor, then entered a nolle prosequi, .and Hayne left the dock. The Crown Prosecutor made a declaration that it. seemed to him that the ends of justice were being defeated by a conspiracy of silence.