SOUGHT TO PROTECT WIFE
MAN CONCERNED IN UNLAWFUL OPERATION ENTERS WITNESS BOX By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, this day. The unusual instance of a prisoner going into the Avitness box before sentence Avas passed upon him and taking all the responsibility for the crime of Avhich he and his Avife had been jointly convicted occurred at the Supreme Court yesterday when Robert William Campbell (37) and his Avife, Mary Campbell (39), Avere placed in the dock for sentence. Both had been found guilty of performing an unlaAvful operation upon a girl Avho later died in the Tanmarunui hospital and each prisoner Avas sentenced to seven years’ hard labour.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8498, 5 August 1933, Page 3
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