ALLEGED PERJURY

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1929, Page 5

ALLEGED PERJURY

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 10. The Porirua Mental Hospital case, which resulted in an attendant being found guilty of assault, was recalled to-day, when the trial commenced in the Supreme Court of William Worsley, one of the attendants, who gave evidence for the dofonce, on a •charge of having committed perjury by falsely asserting on oath that he hnd seen a fight between a • patient concerned in the case and another patient, on the day the patient sustained his injuriesTf . MU U-iV,) In the course of the evidence, the Court reporter replying to counsel, said there was not in the notes of Worsley’s evidence any statement to the effect that the patient’s injuries were caused by the fight. Under cross-examination Dr Mackie, assistant medical officer- at Porirua, said if accused had been on the knob and saw two patients : fighting, ’ some seventy yards away, his first duty would he to remain there, as he was really in a key position in- the yard. He had to see that none of the pat ients escaped irom the- yard. If the fight were of sufficient violence, he,, should have called the attention of some -other . i atte^ant., i , V ««3 The CrbwiD is lengwuly witnesses with the object -of ing that the defence still;':was' tqat th<U injuries were caused in the fight.