ALLEGED MURDER
(P3R PKKSS ASS OIAIION ) I Wellington, April 13. The Supremo Court hua been occupied aU day hearing the charge of murder preferred sjainat Fong Ohong and his wife, an English woman. The body of their infant child bearing marks of violenoe weß found wrapped m a bag on the beaoh at Evans Bay ii January last. Th 9 jnry retired at 7.30 and after an hour'a deliberation acquitted the accused on the more aeriouß oharge and entered up a verdiot of concealment of birth The Ohlef Justice sentenced the prisoners to two years' imprisonment each, but ressrved a question of coipus delicti for the Appeal Court, and ordered that execution should be arrested until the deoieion of that O^urt waa gJven. A peculiar point .mse after the verdiot had been given, it being ascer'a'nod that nor.c of the evidence had bnen interpreted to the male prisoner. Taia, his Honor said, if anything was only a mis-trial, but ho waa not prepared at prosant to Bay whit ooune should bo adopted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1815, 14 April 1888, Page 2
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172ALLEGED MURDER Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1815, 14 April 1888, Page 2
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