"DEN OF MURDER."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 71, 29 July 1913, Page 5

"DEN OF MURDER."

BOGUS BABY BONUSES.

HOSPITAL BABY FARMING. [By Electric Telegraph—copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.15 a.m.) Melbourne, July 29. The trial of two nurses named Hannah Janet Hun-ell and Clarice Donaldson and Dr. Edward George Prison, for conspiring to defraud the Commonwealth by ficticious claims under the Maternity Allowance Act has concluded.

.justice Hood, summing up, said that birth certificates signed. by nurses overflowed with false names. They signed themselves over and o\-ei again as mothers. One witness had

said that an illegitimate child was disposed of to Donaldson for £3O. II the statements regarding such transactions were any tiling like' l true, hospital was simply a den of murder.

if the children were not absolutely done to death, probably they wei\

allowed to starve away. Dr. Erso* was in an unfortunate position. Hi signed over forty certificates, but at- ; mded only twenty-six cases, the explanation being that lie signed tin certificates in blank through carelessness. The nurses were found guilty and each were sentenced to twelvi months' imprisonment and fined £IOO Dv. Erson was acquitted.