BEDSIDE COURT
EVIDENCE tAKEN IN HOSPITAL Court proceedings were held in unusual circumstances at the Dunedin Hospital ~pn Thursday night when, in a special ward, Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., held a sitting at the , bedside of a young woman-.whols at present lying' dangerously ill as the result. it is ,alleged, of an illegal operation. . The accused person,. who was represented by' Mr, ,G. Henri Arnaud Hirt, a Swiss,'aged Tomahawk. and' he wais charged with havingunlawfully used, an instrument. - Sergeant Hall prosecuted* and with him were Chief Detective Uplines and Detective Russell. Before the woman’s statement was taken Dr J. B. Dawson, professor of, obstetrics at the Dunedin Medical School, stated'that , she was fit to give -evidence. The woman identified the ; accused as the man whom shb had interviewfid,.-ami whose rooms in. theAGctaghri she subsequently visited bn ' April 21. She’described Hirt’s alleged actldns’-.on the-,latter occasion, and stated thdt.ish?‘'paid him «. She went to wolpk*:'. that but feeling unwell, returned' home «pd went to bed, where she , stayed •'fph i ‘a week. As she was still In- pain, she.paid another visit to Hirt, artd.'he advised- her to -see Dr Monhelmerr who .would nave her admitted' to the?*Hospital,, She. did this. .Thq accused was remanded until Friday next, the magistrate intimating that at the present juncture he would not entertain an application' for bail.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24911, 9 May 1942, Page 6
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