ALLEGED HOMICIDE
CHARGE AGAINST DOCTOR DEATH OF AN INFANT. (Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October. 10, George Frederick Hewer, aged 30, a medical practitioner, who already stands charged with illegally using an instrument on a young woman, appeared m the Ponce Court to-day on a charge of tiling the woman’s infant male child, thereby committing homicide. The police strenuously opposed an application for bail. ...... Counsel for the defence contended that it was not a charge of murder in the ordinary sense. . , , „ The police said it was technically murCounsel said he did not think there had been a similar case in England for 50 magistrate refused bail till he had consulted the Crown solicitor, and remanded Hewer till to-morrow.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21772, 11 October 1932, Page 10
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118ALLEGED HOMICIDE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21772, 11 October 1932, Page 10
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