A CHARGE OF ABORTION.

NZ Truth, Issue 114, 24 August 1907, Page 5

A CHARGE OF ABORTION.

■ -. ..o The kc&jstd Remanded. Tho cKargc of abortion is met oo< casio^ally at the Ccurto, but mostly: , when the girl is m a ba/1 way ; ti\ea m raoct cases there is au -i:;Testifia-< tion iff the c^.usc. William Eurford!.. a snaa.irt-lookin(s young nan who helps to run a sheeting gallery m Willis-street, is ? r leged to have been on tereis of illicit intimacy with a . seventeen-year-old 'girl named Majyi Bond, with disastrous results. The . trusting maiden reached a certain condition ' after four moirfts of love's young dream* and it is alleged that Burford brought her to the house of , Annie' Whi'taier, wife of a carpenter, ' m Arc-street, whose habitation « ■, luxuriously furnishtsd and oomfortabls m every way. It is stated that an operation was performed here and that no one would have Iwen m' vrfser had the giri not been permitted to leave the house rather soon Jufer the" happening. She was taken >»• and jras removed from her. ]odg--nf« m Efi'ice-street to tho hospital, where all of -these particulars were ascertained.. Burford and the wor.mn V^-j't-afcer -vtere arrested and atlmil^rt tr> bail of £150. or two sifteti-cs of £75 each .