AUCKLAND SESSION OPENED BY JUSTICE HERDMAN
(Press Assn. —
CRIMES OF VIOLENCE
By Telegraph — Copyright).
Auckland, Tuesday. The Auckland cpiminal sessions opened to-day. ; Mr. Justice Herdman told the grand jury that an unpleasant and disturb--ing feature about the list was the number of charges of crimes of violence, including two charges of murder. In some cases of murder persons were unable to understand that what they did was wrong. There was one pase of that kind on the list — that of an unfortunate woman, obviously suffering from some form of mental disorder, who killed her child. It would finally rest with the commpn jury to say whether or not the child was killed when the mother was suffering from dementia. The grand jui'y's plain duty was to return a true bill. The other case, that of a man named Edwards, who was charged with murdering a woman named Christian Cunningham, was one of greater difiiculty, and he would make no comment on it. The size of the iist seemed formidable, but the size of the Auckland judicial . district, which was said to comprise one-third of the people of the Dominion, must be remembered.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 671, 25 October 1933, Page 5
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