MATRON'S LAPSES
EVIDENCE OF DOCTORS {Mated to be suffering from epilepsy and liable to do things of which she wdu not conscious, a matron in a Loudon nursing home was ordered by tho Slarylebone magistrate not to resume her job until she had been certified fit by a doctor. The matron, Miss Hannah Graham ,\V}(lie, aged 37, pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling sums of money am ounting to about £4B, and stealing; a gold cigarette case belonging to Ixejf employer, Miss Elizabeth Fulcher. Two doctors save evidence that Miss Wylie was liable to periods of automatism, which might last for hours or a couple of months. The magistrate remarked that ho had listened to tlie doctors, and he had Also been, impressed by the fact that tho matron had used the stolen cigarette caso in tho nurses' home while thore was a hue and crv for it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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148MATRON'S LAPSES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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