NUN'S FLIGHT FROM CONVENT.
POLICE COURT CHARGE FAILS. Ify Telegraph—Press Asia—Copyright Received August 13; 10.20 p.m. Sydney, August 13. There was a great crowd at the Police Court, where Sister Ligouri appeared on a charge that she waß a person deemed insane aild without sufficient means of support.
Medical experts having adjudged her sane, she vas immediately discharged, and left amid demonstrations with those who befrjsnded her Bince she escaped from the convent.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
[Much public interest was shown in Sydney in the case of Sister Ligouri, a nun who escaped from • a convent at Wagga, She was brought to Sydney, where she took refuge in the house of a Congregational minister until arrested under a warrant issued at the instance of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese, the information setting out that Bridget Partridge, otherwise Sister Ligouri, was a person deemed insane and without sufficient means of support.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1920, Page VII
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151NUN'S FLIGHT FROM CONVENT. Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1920, Page VII
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