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ABORTION ALLEGED
Following on the admission of a 17-year-old girl to the Women’s Hospital last night in a serious condition, police arrested the mother of the girl, a nurse, another woman and a young man on a charge of conspiring to bring about a certain event.
The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal, 1932
While awaiting the arrival of Johnston and the Rolls-Royce, Rowland took rooms at Leura House for the five men who’d given them refuge the night before. Arrangements were made with the manager and housekeeper to keep them in every comfort. He’d had to press the point with respect to Thompson whom the housekeeper initially refused to accommodate. However, in the face of Rowland’s insistence, his obvious offence that she was in any way reluctant to afford hospitality to the gentle
