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Acquitted Of
Unlawful
Woundine .
A jury in General Sessions
today were out only a minute
before acquitting Mrs Elizabeth
Durbridge, 22, of Learmonth
street, Moonee ponas, or naving
! unlawfully wounded another
woman with a knife ln an
apartment house on February
7.
The victim, Lillian Jeanette
Coughlin, spinner, now of Gore
Street, Fitzroy, received a cut
i from a long knife ln the left
-forearm an Inch deep and an
Inch and a half long.
1 Miss Coughlin tola the court
she received the cut after an
argument.
She had been taken to Royal
Park as part of a plot to get
her out of her room in the
apartment house so it could be
searched.
Dr. Roy Nettlefold, who had
treated Miss Coughlln's wound
said she told him there was "an
Invisible man" ln her room and
that somebody was using her
for experiments. He considered
she suffered from a persecution
complex and delusions.
Mrs Durbrldge's defence was
that she acted in self defence.
She said Miss Coughlin had at
tacked her without provocation
and tried to choke her.
After she 'defended herself
with a knife she was hit on the
head with an iron bar.
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