AN ESCAPED NUN.
INSANITY CHARGE DISMISSED,
EXTRAORDINARY CASE IN SYDNEY.
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There was a great crowd at the Police ('mirt, where Sister Ligouri was presented on a charge of being in-aiie and without -udieient in,enn-ui-support, Medical experts having adjudged her sane, she was immediately discharged, and left amid demonstrations with those who have befriended her sun-e her escape j rum the convent.
Much public inlere-l was displayid in the ease of Sister Ligouri, a nun who escaped from a convent a! Waggn Wagga and was taken to Sydney, whore she took refuge in (he house of a Congregational minister until she was arrested under a warrant issued at. the instance of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese. The information set on! that Bridget Partridge, otherwise Sister Ligouri, was a person deemed to lie insane and without -nflieient means of support. The court remanded her for seven days to a reception house for expert medical observation. The court was densely crowded. Protestant organisations are taking a prominent purl in t lit? ease.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2163, 14 August 1920, Page 2
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174AN ESCAPED NUN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2163, 14 August 1920, Page 2
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