Sydney has nad her case also. In this affair action never got far beyond the coroners court. It seems to have been a case where a married woman went into a private hospital, with her husband's consent, because she did not want a family. She died, and her English relatives wrote out making inquiries. The nurse meanwhile had died, and the husband could not account. for his wife's absence. For weeks the Sidney police searched for the body, or. traces of it. Eventually some remnants werd dug up from beneath tle cemented floor of a garage. First charged with mis-prison, the husband was finally committed for trial) as an access sory before the fact by the colonial court. Misprision was then withdrawn and the Crown hag just retused to prosecute on' the accessory charge. The woman, was a young English girl who married an Australian soldier and came out with him. The name was Heaydon, and she was supposed to have died about two years ago.
There were many peculiar' phases about the case, especially the long and arduous search of the police, with a result which suggests that they must have had help other than that of their own astuteness. During the coroner's inquest there suddenly appeared in the witness box many notorious criminals—some actually being brought from gaol—willing to testify to The removal of the body from the private hospital..It was doubtless the public feeling of resentment at this action of the police which convinced thie Attorney-General that it was useless to send the case to a jury.
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