Woman To Be Charged With Murder

Chronicle (Levin), 15 November 1948, Page 4

Woman To Be Charged With Murder

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MASTERTON, Nov. 14. • The • body of a Chinese ehild, . 'Joseph Eredei'ick Y ee Kim, age^i 18 months, who had' been missing from his patents ' liome at Te Ore Ore, about two miles from JVlas- • terton, since last Wednesday uiglit, was fonnd this afternoon about 3 p.m. by a police search party, in the " Ruamahunga River about half a tnile from where he iived. The body was brought to Masterton where an inquest was opened and after evidence of identificatlon, adjouriied sine die. A postrnorterri will .be .eonductecl by Dr. P. P. Lynch (Wellington). After the inq.uest M woman was arrested by Sub-Inspector Kane and Senior Detective Gordon. She „ will be charged in the Magistrate's" Court tomorrow with the murder of the ehild. - The ehild was alone in his cot for 10 to 20 minutes only on Wednesday night, aild he disappeared during that time, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tee Kim, market gardeners, stated. • . _ Mrs. Kim said that she left the house to1 go to the pictures at. 7 p.m., knowing that her husband was working nearby. After seeing the first half of the film programme she returned to her home, and' her husband asked her where the ehild was. The infant's disappearance had a number of faetors that are in-_ compatible with his having left the house unassisted, In the first place, he was not yet able to walk. His overcoat, whieh had been left folded in a drawer, was missing also, He was in a. high-sided cot from whieh it would have" been. impossible for him to elimb, irt his mother's opinion. In addition to this, the door. of the ehild 's room, although not clqsed, was barred by a two-foot-high partition, whieh fhe infant could not conceivably have crossed by himself. The aceess to the house is by a steep fiight of steps, 14 feet high. Mr. and Mrs. Kim have been living. in the Wairarapa /for , only four months, and their home previously was in Auckland. They have been married nearly four years, and have one other ehild, a -girl aged' eight months. .