A Serious Charge.
A chemist named Sheridan has been committed for trial m Sydney for wilful murder, having, it ig alleged, caused the death of four pregnant women on whom he had used a surgical instrument for the purpose of procuring abortion. At the inquests on the unfortunate women it was shown that m each case Sheridan had punctured the uterus and caused fatal peritonitis. He seems to have been doing a roaring trade, as one witness said to a woman who was enciente, "Why don't you go to Sheridan. He will do it for The woman went, and died soon afterwards, and the adviser now finds himself committed for trial on a charge of witful murder. It is to be hoped these cases will act as a warning to others who are deriving an unholy profit from the same iource, as Sheridan seems to have been making the bulk of ins income until hiss maladroitoess as a surgeon landed hinxin gaol with four murders to answer for.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 21, 23 December 1884, Page 2
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168A Serious Charge. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 21, 23 December 1884, Page 2
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