EXTRAORDINARY COURT CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8867, 30 October 1907, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY COURT CASE.

A DOCTOR CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. A WOMAN'S STORY. A sensational story was told at the Napier Magistrate's Court on Monday last by Mrs Rosie Elphanstone Warren, who asked that Dr. T. C. Moore, a well-known medical and public man, should be bound over to keep the peace. Prosecutrix said that on September 30th last Dr Moore's eldest daughter, who had since been admitted to a lunatic asylum, came to her house and said that her people were giving her medicine to make her mad, and asked to be allowed to stay the night. This she was allowed to do, but Mrs Warren and a Miss Boyle went to telephone to Dr Moore to acquaint him whei"e his daughter was. On the way she met an aunt of Miss Moore's, who said the girl would have to go home, which she did that night. Mrs Warren, when going to a garden party called at Dr Moore's residence with her little girl to ask for Miss Margaret Moore. She was shown into the drawing room, and shortly after Dr Moore came in. He said: "You're that Mrs Warren; you wretched, vile, wicked woman." She asked him who ho was speaking to, and he replied : "I'm speaking to you. I wonder you have the impertinence to come here." She tried to get out, but defendant slapped he.x face, took her by the shoulders and threw her across the room. She screamed, but Dr Moore laughed, and at last let her out. Corroborative evidence was given by the seven-year-old daughter of prosecutrix. Defendant, in evidence, stated that when prosecutrix called at his house he asked her why she had kept his daughter for hours keeping them in a state of anxiety. She said she had done it out of kindness, and he said she had behaved improperly. Mrs Warren then got very excited, voluble and incoherent. He had no intention of assaulting her, but he put out his hand, and she seemed to fall over. He denied using any violence, and alpo denied slapping ( Mrs Warren's face or throwing her across the room. After hearing other witnesses for the defence, the Magistrate reserved judgment.