SISTER LIGOURI.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2028, 14 August 1920, Page 5

SISTER LIGOURI.

NUN DECLARED SANE. RELEASED BY THE COURT. By Cable. — Press Assoctnfion.— Copyright. SYDNEY, August 13. There was a great crowd at the Police Court, where Sister Ligouri again appeared. Medical experts having, adjudged her sane, she was immediately discharged, and left amid demonstrations with those who had befriended her since she escaped from the convent. [A message from Sydney on August 10 said:—There is nuicli public- interest in Ihc case of Sister Ligouri, ;i mm who escaped from a convent at Wagga. She came to Svduev, where she took refuse in the house of a Congregational minister until she was arrested under a warrant issued at the instance of the Unman Catholic ltishop of the diocese, the information setting out that Bridget Partridge, otherwise Sister Ligouri, ■was a person deemed insane and without sufficient means of support. The Court remanded her tor seven days to a reception lionse for expert medical observation. Protestant organisations are taking a prominent part in the case.]