ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.
NEWLY-BORN BABY STRANGLED. IJTIKSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM;) PALMERSTON NORTH, June 4. Tho coroner held an inquest into the death of a newly-born intartt found in a pit on Mikon's line on May.2sth. Detective Sweeney gave evidence of the statement made to the police by the accused,' Lydia Schultz, a single woman, who admitted that the child was hers, that she strangled it in her bedroom with a piece of string, afterwards ■wrapping it up in paper in a sugarsack, and putting it in a gravel pit. Accused added: '"The father did not know anything about what I had done." Medical evidence showed that the child had lived. Ite organs were healthy, and death was due to strangulation. The coroner returned a verdict of wilful murder. Accused, brought before the Court, pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial at the nest sitting o f the Supreme Court.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 8
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148ALLEGED INFANTICIDE. Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 8
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