Police Court 25th July 1866

John Chapman Davie [illegible] being duly sworn on oath deposeth and saith:

I am a Doctor of Medicine on the 25th inst. I made an examination of the child who is now in Court I hear her call herself Mary Gowian. I found the child laboring under a discharge from the vagina and pudendum of a [illegible] purulent character the vulva was considerably distended, and unnaturally the hymen was gone and the orifice of the vagina lacerated. I examined the prisoner on the same day, I found him laboring under a discharge from the urethra similar in character to that from the child. I cannot state positively whether the disease is venereal, cases similar often arise without impure connexion: the laceration of the vagina and the loss of the hymen may be accounted for by the introduction of an instrument or fingers, or of the penis.

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 5 File 1866/16 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.