MRS AVES TRIAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 17, 4 February 1937, Page 5

MRS AVES TRIAL

—Press Association.)

Prosecutor's Outline of Evidence TWEfjTY-SIX WITNESSES

(By Telngraph-

WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. The third trial of Isabel Annie Aves, also khown as Craike, a married Woman; of Hastings, on seven cbarges^bf unlawfully Using an instrument, was opened in the Supreine Court, Wellington, yesterday, before ihe Chief Justie-e (8>if Michael Myers) and a jury of 12,THe alleged offehces took place between May, 1935, and Jtine, 1936, at Hastiflgs. Mr, H. B, Lixsk, GfoWfi pfosefintof at Napier, ia cohducting the pfoseeution, and Mr. C. G. E. Harker, Waipawa, is appehfifig for aCciised. AdSfessxfig the jury, Mt. Lusk re* VieWed the evidence of the 26 witiiesses t6 be cfilled fdr the Cfowii. "When defectiveS ViSited aecused 's h6h!se fif

MastiftgS en Julxe 25,' 1936, he said, they found certain artiCles which might Ceftainly be found in otber honseholds, but which, taken in conjtinction with the other evidence, could have been Used for the 'pufpose of assisting to procure miscarriage. In the EoUse were found also books of accoUnt shoWing a very extensive business and connecting up some of the persons who were being called by ihe Crown,At the .back of the section axid in a duckpond in an adjoining section the poliCe had Come on two places where the ground had been recentiy disttirbCd, said Mr, Luik.- Investigation brought to light a human foetus and the body df an infant Within* fdur oi six weeks of full-time delivery* Aecused said she kneW nothing about them and could not account for their pfesenCe. The ground was dug up. and Within a Small area the remainS of 20 other infants wero found, notte of them being ftilly develeped. Most Of them W6fe bUried in lixpd, some having been in the ground for a considerable time. All, Df, Lynch Would say, had been the fesult t£ fbiticaffiages.