SENSATIONAL ARREST.
An Auckland Doctor Charged With Murder.
(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.)
Auckland, July 3. This afternoon Detectives Grace and Herbert arrested Dr. Jno. Wilkin in Shortland Street and charged him that he did on or about the 17th day of May murder Mary O'Dowd, the inquest on whose death terminated yesterday. At the inquest the Coroner in summing up, after going through all the evidence, quoted section 201 of the Criminal Code to the effect that a person procuring abortion was liable to imprisonment for lifo. The jury's verdict was that "death was due to blood poisoning, the result of external agency, but there was not sufficient evidence beforo the jury to prove by whom this agoncy was caused." Dr Wilkins was charged with the murder of Mary O'Dowd at the Police Court this morning. Accused was remanded on bail, himself £750 and two sureties of £750 each.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 July 1901, Page 3
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148SENSATIONAL ARREST. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 July 1901, Page 3
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