ALLEGED MURDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 583, 29 November 1902, Page 2

ALLEGED MURDER.

THE HEATH OF LOTTIE AN CELL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, yestorday. The trial of Thomas Frederick Mooro and Mary Ann Mills on a charge of murdering Lottie Anccll at Waipawa on October 130th, commenced in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Deceased died suddenly in the shop of the male accused, a chemist, and it is alleged death was' caused by something administered to procure abortion. Mills is Moore's housekeeper. Tho evidence so far is only formal.

Later.—F. T. Moore, chemist, of Waipawa, and his housekeeper, Mary Ann Mills, both need about, Os, were charged at the Magistrate’s Court today with the murder of one Lottie Aneeil, aged is, who was found dead in Moore's shop on October 30th last. The evidence was led by the Crown to show that the young woman Ancell, who was employed as book-keeper in the Clarendon Hotel, Napier, had left town with the intention of going to Wellington, but broke her journey at Waipawa, where she called at Moore’s shop, saying that she was ill. Subsequently she died in his dental suigery. The Crown's case was that an illegal operation had been performed on the deceased, resulting in iier sudden death. Under cross-examination a witness for the prosecution admitted that deceased had intimated that she had procured instruments from a chemist atWellington, which she had used m Napier, and that on the morning she left Napier she felt so unwell that she thought she would die. Medical evidence was called hv the Crown to the effect that the appearance of the girl after the post mortem examination was consistent with a certa'u kind of process followed in the performance of an illegal operation. The taking of evidence had not been concluded when the Court rose.