Found Guilty On Serious Charge

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 4

Found Guilty On Serious Charge

DRAPER AWAITS SENTENCE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Returning this afternoon after an absence of two hours aud a-half, a jury in the Supreme Court found Percy Reginald Speers, draper, aged 42, guilty of unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage. He was acquitted on three other counts. The jury added a rider that the principal witness for the Crown was a consenting party in all the transactions. The prisoner was remanded until 10 a.in. tomorrow for sentence by Air. Justice Smith. The principal witness for the Crown was a widow with several children. The prisoner was charged on four counts: (1) With unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure a mis carriage. (2) With inciting a woman to permit an instrument to be used upon her with intent to procure a miscarriage. (3) With supplying a noxious drug with intent to bring about a miscarriage. (4) With attempting to supply a noxious drug with intent to nrocure a miscarriage.