Show THE ABORTION CASE Fowler and Irons Held to Answer to the Grand 3nvy i The examination in the abortion case of IronsPowlcrKvans was concluded yesterday at noon the result being that the defendants Dr Fowler and J W Irons were held to answer to the grand jury with bail fixed at oOOO each The witnes cb called upon to testify were Mrs Pratt and Dr Hamilton The firstnamed was questioned upon two or three unimportant points and excused The latter was asked as to the nature of the instrumentalleged to have been used by Dr Fowler shortly Iefore the abortion charged was obtained He said that in a case of pregnancy the implements used would be very dangerous and that their use in such a case was looked upon as reprehensible repre-hensible by the profession Objection was raied after coniderable testimony had been given to the witness stating what condition he found the patient in when he examined her on Tuesday last The objection was urged because of a violation of confidence between patients and physicians and Justice Speirs ruled it was inadmissible When the examination of these witnesses = wit-nesses was ended counsel for the defense stated that they did not wish to introduce any testimony No arguments argu-ments were made and the justice decided to hold the defendants as above |