ACQUITTED.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER FAILS. ASSOCIATION TBC,£QEAH..,i NEW PLYMOUTH, November 24. The death of a Maori child, aged sixteen months, at Ketemarae pa, near Hawera, off October 26th, resulted in n charge of manslaughter against a Maori woman, aged forty, before the Chief Justice to-day. She was acquitted by the jury. «The charge was previously murder, but the Grand Jury reduced it to manslaughter. The story told by witnesses was that Mahere "adopted the child of a sick relative, and kept it in a whare with, her own three children. The childten caused the baby to cry. Maliere slapped it to stop it crying. The child continued to cry, and Mahere admitted that she punched it on the chin. She said the child would not wake up, so she threw water over it. Help was summoned, and a doctor found the child dead. Air L. A. Tavlor. for the defence, put Mahere m the bos. She told her .story weeping. Summing up his Honour Baid there never had been any suggestion, that Mahere struck the child with intention to harm it. The jury returned in half an hour with a verdict of not guilfcv.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 25 November 1930, Page 12
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194ACQUITTED. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 25 November 1930, Page 12
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