UNLAWFUL USE OF INSTRUMENT.
MURDER. CHARGE PREFERRED. Wellington, July 28. • When Elizabeth Nevill, a married woman, aged 40, appeared on remand in the Magistrate’s Court to-day on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument on Elsie Davis, aged 31, who died at Wellington hospital on July 21, Chief Detective Wjard asked that the charge be withdrawn and a charge of muder substituted. He applied for a remand to August 4th. » Mr. Stevenson applied for bail. Bail he said, had been allowed on the former charge at £3OO, with two sureties of £l5O each. If bail were refused the magistrate would virtually be imposing a sentence of three months. It was impossible for accused to appear before the present sessions of the Supreme Court.
Chief Detective Ward said that he was opposing bail owing to tlie gravity of the charge. Bail, if granted , should be substantial.
Accused was ordered to be held in custody until to-morrow morning, when the questions of bail and the remand would be decided.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3517, 29 July 1926, Page 2
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167UNLAWFUL USE OF INSTRUMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3517, 29 July 1926, Page 2
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