ABORTION CASES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4770, 22 January 1887, Page 4

ABORTION CASES.

A Wellington correspondent, wiring to an Auckland paper, says : — "lt is whispered that proceedings are likely to be taken against a certain resident in Wellington, who is reported to have made a handsome thing for the past two or three years by assisting to procure abortion." Horrible disclosures were made during the hearing of the Christchurch cases. The girl Connolly was a servant with Mrs Bowern, and had been intimate with the telegraphist Wilson, who was a lodger there. When she found she was pregnant the gfrl went to Russell, and Mrs Bowern paid him ten pounds which Wilson had provided for the purpose. The abortion waa performed by instruments. The girl deposed : " It was alive when it was born ; I am sure of that — I saw it moving." Another witness detailed a conversation with Mrs Bowern, in the course of which the latter said she burned it on the kitchen tire, and had to raise the fire when she saw the child's arm lifted up. The girl Connolly had previously said she heard the voices from the kitchen of Mrs Boworn, Misa Wilson, and her brother.

Another witness, a married woman, named Perrin, said : — Mrs Bowern told me it was burnt on the kitchen fire. She told me she could not touch it herself, but waited till her brother came, and that her brother put it on the fire.

The detective's evidence showed that when arrosted in his own houso Russell asked for time to put his things in order. The witness deposed : Aftor waiting an hour I said, " Well, doctor, I can't wait any longer, you must come away now." He then put on his boots and coat and said ho wanted to spealc to his sister. He wont to the end of the passage, and was speaking to his sister. I was three or four yards from him, arid standing m the passage. I heard hia sister scream and say, "Oh, you must not do that." J looked over and saw that the doctor had a bottle in his mouth (bottle produced ; it contained a qaantit.y of wine-like liquid). There was no cork in it then. J rushed over and took it from him. Some of the liquid from the bottle was streaming down his beard and chin. 1 called Detective Neill, who was in the next room. I got hold of the doctor, and said, " Now, you must come away at once." He caught hold of the jamb of the door, and said, "No, you are too late now; I've dono it. I want to die in my own house." At the hospital, where ho was instantly taken, ho aaid there several times that ho wished ho could die, and that it was better for him to die than disyraco 100 families. He then handed me a piece of paper, and asked mo to givo it to his sister and not to open it. F. opened it ;it read

— "I am betrayed for doing the beat I could to save two families. Telegraph to Louie not to come. Pay all debts. Them is enough, and a little for Louie and E\n ; kiss them for me. T cannot sfand this and must die. God have mercy on my soul. Good-bye.— C. J. Russell, SID."

Mrs Bowern deposed to having been to Russell several times and paid £'10 10a each time ftueaell saying he would get ten years if it waa known, in one of the cases Russell had been intimate with the woman operated on.

Doctors Gavk Him Up.— "ls it possible* that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, ami cured by so simple a remedy?" "I assure, you it is true that he is entirely cured, aud with nuthiug but Am. Co.'s Hop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he inuat die." " VVeli-a-day ! If that in so I will go this minute and get some for my poor George. I know hops are good." The Chinese learn from Europeans very fast. One in Otago was fined L 2 for mining without a license, and finding he was being taken to gaol he disgorged and showed he had L6O, though ho had been living on begging. Australian wheat on the spot has been sold at 303. No Bales of now crop have boen reported. Flour is one shilling lower. A dunking man, upon reading in a novel that the heroine's beautiful face " colored with pleasure," said, "Now l know what's the matter with my nose." Toil is the lot oi man, and not of the poor man exclusively. — Freeaian.