Serious Charge Against Ngaruawahia Doctor
(Special) HAMILTON. Thursday. A mcclical practitioner, George Brownlee Isdale, aged 51, of Ngaruawahia, was charged before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in Hamilton today on two counts of conspiring with women to unlawfully use an instrument or other means with intent to procure miscarriages and on 19 counts of unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure miscarriages. Mr V. R. Meredith conducted the case for the Crown, and Mr J. F. Strang appeared for the accused. There were 34 witnesses and the case was not completed today. The witnesses ranged from young single girls to middleaged married women and the fees they said they had paid accused ranged from £l2/10/- to £35. The witnesses came from Auckland and from various Waikato towns. Mr Meredith asked that the accused be committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for trial. Mr Strang objected. The magistrate said he.could send the accused to any Supreme Court in New Zealand. He added that he would decide the point when he had heard all the evidence.
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Northern Advocate, 1 October 1943, Page 2
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