TRIAL COMMITTAL

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 6

TRIAL COMMITTAL

AUCKLAND DOCTOR’S CASE. USE OF ILLEGAL INSTRUMENT. (Per Press Association— c opyright - < AUCKLAND, October 20. George Frederick Hewer, aged 39, a doctor, was to-day committed for trial on charges 0 f unlawfully using an instrument upon a young woman, and ol killing her infant male child, thereby committing murder. The young woman concerned said, in her evidence, that she arrived from Palmerston North on September 23, and saw Hewer, and begged him to do what he could for her. Subsequent.y she gave him £lO, and he performed the operation upon her. The operation was repeated and accused also gave her pills. When sh e tir=t saw Hewer sh e told him that <an operation had been performed ipon her about a fortnight before by a man in Palmerston North. Cross-examined on this point she said that the police did not know of this earlier operation. Until two days ago she did not know of the man’s name, when she wrote to him and he came to her. Accused was .allowed bail. Coughs and colds debilitate the s’ j* t< jii to such an extent that more r?i<ous ailments are often contracted. That’s! why Tcmdng’s Linseed emulsion is so popular. It promptly relievo? coughs and colds and also builds up tiro system enabling it to repulse threatening major ailments. Is Gd, 2s fid, and 4s 6d.— l dvt , .... I