JURY DISAGREES.
TRIAL OF YOUNG WOMAN. Received June 9, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, Juno 3. After threo days' hearing at the Norwich Assizes the jury for the second time disagreed in the case against Dorothy Myrtle Thurburn, a pretty girl of 25. who was accused of sending anonymous letters to residents of Sheringham, where sho lives. Tho previous trial was held last November and the next trial has boon fixjjd for October. Mcanwhlie tho Crown may drop tho case.
The judge commented : "It is net fair to the girl for the case to hang over her head for months and months. She is young and it may ruin her whole life."—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1037, 9 June 1924, Page 5
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