An Escaped Nun
SENSATION AT WAGCA (N.S.W.) CASE BEFORE THE COURT. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 2.10 p.m.) Sydney, August 10. Much public interest is cause in the case of Sister Ligouri, a nun, who escaped from a convent at Wagga and was brought to Sydney, where she took refuge in the house of a Congregational minister until she was arrested under a warrant issued at the instance of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese, the information settin’g out that Bridget Partridge, otherwise Sister Ligouri, was a person deemed insane and without sufficient means of support. The Court remanded her for seven days to a reception house for expert medical observation.
The Court was. densely crowded, the Protestant organisations taking a prominent part in the case.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 18, 10 August 1920, Page 5
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125An Escaped Nun Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 18, 10 August 1920, Page 5
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