VERDICT OF GUILTY

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 5

VERDICT OF GUILTY

NURSE KERR REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. .. ' ...r V■ ' -■ i (Per Press Association— Copyright.) At'CKIIAND, 'May.‘ 26. The thiid. .tryvil of iJiirsbV- Elspetth Kerr concluded ' to-daV. . The Jury returned li verdictof guilty ,on all counts. 1 ;■ ■ >f: Mr Justice .; Herdman immediately remanded thfe prisoner for ’‘ sentence to-morrow.'7 ia v-vj V''' *• .• j C ;•

The. charges f'against' Nurse-Kerr, who" is 46 •year's: 6f?uge/-were .’tliat on April Bth.,'loth, and 16th:/ : 1932, she administered- p-jisoh tvef’ouaJ) to her eigiit year. old.. fcisfer-daughtef, Betty 'Kerr/ with intent, to. injure her, ; and so that her life: " was endangered'.; . The case :was heard in 'the. *polite court last J lily, hut did not reach trial in. the . Supreme ..Court until March. In that iribittli r T two trials, -the-first lasting- bighifdayjSj,-'the second ■■ fivuyV f ; " In , ,each/case the* Jury failed tai; 3,.; '_f. c ■'-The iury-7ret ( itfiied.:/tb-day.- after .an •absence of' o,n.e‘. hour. ;ajjd 10 minutes. There . \vns> some; demonstration'x ; pf surprise frjprii The of thb ppdrt. It was promptly suppressed. - J|u; die* charging the’"Juryf; the f judge ■ -n have to thank,„>‘oii for./your r You lniye boeii engaged urioiy important case. ;You will bo• * ®|SS2E22 from furthow. s'tfn* ics'' on a three years,” ' ' ; ' ■/; *. '' ■' :