STATION HOTEL CASE
BOTH ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. December 7. After medical and other evidence had been' heard by Mr F. H. Levien. S.M., in the case against Francis Leonard Laurie, storeman. 39, of Belmont, and his next-door neighbour, Mrs Josephine Norton. Laycock, 34, both accused were committed for trial. Both counsel applied for bail. It was granted to Mrs Laycock in the sum of £250, with a surety of £250, a condition being that she stayed with her mother. In refusing Laurie bail, the magistrate said there were peculiar features about the case, which made it undesirable that both accused should be released. Laurie was charged “that on November 6 he attempted to murder Josephine Laycock," aiu| secondly that “on November 5 he aided and abetted Beatrice Florence Rita Laurie to commit suicide." This second charge against Laurie was preferred for the first time today. The charge against Mrs Laycock read: “That on November 6 she aided and. abetted Francis Leonard Laurie in the commission of the crime of attempting to murder the said Josephine Norton Laycock.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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182STATION HOTEL CASE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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