ON GRAVE CHARGE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2306, 26 November 1925, Page 7

ON GRAVE CHARGE

WOMAN COMMITTED IN CUSTODY. [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night Amy Glenn, a married woman, aged 28 -was charged at the Magistrate’s Court that on October 21, with intent lo procure a certain result, she unlaw, fully used an instrument on Myrtle Veronica Thomson. Mias Thomson died in the Christchurch Hospital on November 8. Her depositions wcr« token on November 7. The afternoon the ■ inquest on the girl Thomson was hold in conjunction with tho Lower Court hearing of the case against Glenn. Mr. H. A. Young presided as Coroner and Magistrate. Medical evidence went to show that death was due to inflammation and blood poisoning. John Baker, who accompanied the girl to a house' in. Essex street, said there were two women there, Mrs Gray and accused. He paid £7 to Gray and accused said he could pay the balance later. Accused was committed for trial, bail being refused. Tho Coroner returned a verdict that the girl had died from acute inllam. motion associated with severe blood poisoning, the result of an illegal operation. The Coroner said that three young women, had .died recently in Christ, church, as the result of illegal operations, and in many other cases known to them, permanent injury had resulted. These cases should serve as a warning to other young women. Nature should be allowed to take its course. If necessary, discreet social workers would take charge of young women and send them away. There was no difficulty in getting children adopted.