SISTER LIGOURI.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2028, 14 August 1920, Page 21 (Supplement)

SISTER LIGOURI.

NUN DECLARED SANE. RELEASED BY THE COURT. By Caltt.—rrett ds*ociation,-~Copyriyht. 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 Svdnev on August 10 said:—There is much public interest in the case of Sister Ligouri, a nun who escaped from a convent at Waggn. She came to Svdnev, where she look refuge in the house oi a Congregational minister until she was arrested under a warrant issued at the instance of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese, the information setting out that Bridget Partridge, otherwise Sister Ligouri, was a person deemed insane and without MiMicient means of support. The Court remanded her for seven days to a reception lionse for expert medical observation. Protectant organisations are taking a prominent part in the case.]