CHARGE OF MURDER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 10

CHARGE OF MURDER.

ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL! | . (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) : Woodvillo, Juno 13. Tho 'Magistrate's Court was occupied' tha whole of to-day, hearing a charge of murder -of-a-nowly-born-•baby;~against AJicG""Maudo Shepherd, a domestic, .'servant, living at : Mangsitdro," near Dannevirkoj ~ and John Clinej roadman for.'the' Dannevirko. County. It will be remembered; that'thb'body of a newly-born bab'y was found in a bag in-the .Woodvillo : .town: sewer, • early in the month, and a string was tied tightly' around tho : neck ,of the child; • Two doctors testified that thb child had lived, and had met its. death Iby^stjarigulation.,/. W oodville, -tmed-.the-hag'/ and.'. wrappings" in .which tho 'hotly. 1 .was ' found as having been- purchased ; .by-the''.malo accused, . and- other : evidence given to their having, , stayed in ' Woodvilo 'together-last ; month. Dotc-ctive Butler-testi-fied to the arrest of accused, and the confession by the female... accused to thb offect that sho had tied a string around the ' child V,neck;" His evidence was corroborated 'by' Sergeant Cruickshank.". Accused"reserved their defonce, and' wero'committed' for trial I 'at'tho Supreme Court, Napier, next'week. ;