SHOOTING OF DR. TOZER.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1921, Page 5

SHOOTING OF DR. TOZER.

ACCUSED AGAIN REMANDED. BRIEF COURT PROCEEDINGS AT HOSPITAL. A still further stage was reached today in the case of the Linfield tragedy (says the Sydney Sun of January 28). Mrs. Dorothy Mort, who is charged with the murder of Dr. Tozer, was remanded again—this time for a period longer than was granted on the previous • occasions, on which the magistrate established a court before her. The accused: woman, of course, >s still a confmee of the Reformatory for Women at Long Bay, and as was the case at the last remand—on January 14 —Mr. E. A. Prior, assistant chamber magistrate at the Central Court, went to 'the gaol, and established a temporary court in the hospital there.

GRANTING THE REMAND. The police were represented by Detective W. Barrett, of police headquarters, and Mr. Hyman, of Bradley, Son, and Maughan, solicitors, were present in the interests of Mrs. Mort. The proceedings occupied no more than a minute. Detective Barrett read the charge against Mrs. Mort, of having feloniously and maliciously murdered'’ Dr. Tozer, and then applied to Mr.. Prior for the remand. The latter granted the request, and the officials retired. It needed no more than the brief space of time the business occupied to allow of the formation of the conclusion that Mrs. Mort’s condition is infinitely worse than it has been since the shooting. It was stated that she has shown no improvement. It is significant in this respect that from the day following the last remand, she has been confined to her bed in the well-lit, spotless an-d cosy ward in which she’ still remains the only patient. This morning a high green screen partly hid: the bed from view, and when' the officials entered the hospital) one of the wardresses was arranging her pillow, and making the sick woman comfortable. Mrs. Mort lay motionless. She was wearing a designed dressing jacket of pale blue and a lace boudoir cap interlaced with blue ribbon. Her left arm was stretched upon the bed beside her, and with her right hand she halfclasped the collar of her jacket. Long, thin arms they are that bespeak her continually failing strength. The ashen pallor of her face is more pronounced, too, and her eyes have sunken more deeply, the rings around them are darker, and there are tiny lines near her colorless lips that were not visible before. With the exception of when she said, “Thank you,” in tones exceedingly low, to Mr. Prior, when he informed her of the remand, she kept her eyes closed. When she thus spoke to the magistrate she merely momentarily looked up and, regarded nobody in particular. There 1 was no smile, and there was no gracious ‘Good morning,” as when the charge was read to her before. She did not even speak with her solicitor. HOSPITAL BRIGHTNESS. Mrs. Mort must derive some happiness. though, from her surroundings. The hospitals at Long Bay are famous, and the ward which she occupies is one that any luxurious private institution would dearly love to have. On her table, on all the tables in the ward, in fact, were freshly-cut flowers, and within reach of her was a little pile of books. All around her seemed bright. One would never dream that beyond the mighty gaol walls was open desolation stretching for miles. The peaceful silence of the place was broken only by the twittering of the birds in the reformatory aviary, and the “goo-goo-ing” of a big and happy baby—the baby of one of the inmates —outside gp the vsramlah sf an adjacent ward-