BAIL REFUSED.
CHARGES AGAINST DOCTOR. (FBKSS MBOCUTIoif" TKLXOBUt.) , ' March 5. j \ John Spi'eull Currie, aged 34, a 1 Buburban medical • practitioner, pleaded guilty, in the 'Magistrate 'a Court to six charges of .wilful obscene exposure, and "was remanded in custody for one v©ek, --'during'which he will'be examined by ? a 'Government,alienist. ' r ,The police said that the offences were committed in the presence of girls aged from nine to 14 years, whom accused invited to ride in hie car, in , three - different - suburbs. J Complaints had been, reeeived also from other suburbs,, and eventually the police, with the assistance of civilians, found that accused was the offender. - Counsel said that accused's friends suspected his case was pathological. If . granted bail he would immediately go £o a hospital and stay there pending sentence. The Magistrate (Mr Hunt) refused ; bail., f
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 16
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138BAIL REFUSED. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 16
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