A GIRL’S DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1931, Page 4

A GIRL’S DEATH

AN ILLEGAL OPERATION. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. April 16. “This girl has been nothing more or less Than deliberately done to death, and it is a very sad thing t somebody cannot be brought to boMc for the outrage,” said Air E. DAloslcy, S.Alin giving his yerdic-t at. the inquest into the death of Queeme> Dorothy Elizabeth Burley, a domestic aged 15 years, who died at the Christchurch Hospital following an illegal operation. The Coroner found that death was the result of an illegal operation, performed on the girl by some person unknown. , r „ “Alc'-t of the witnesses before thCourt have told deliberate untruths.’ said Afr Alosley. "One or two have sought to give their evidence as weft thev thought advisable m the *' y emstancos. but evidently fhev hay failed deliberately to tell _ the " 1 truth They have not assisted in the cause of notice, add if their conSees do not prick them, they are not worth much," / The girl Burley, according to the evidence, had told associates of V condition. She went to sa\ £ fj ( ie died the same night.