CASE OF INFANTICIDE.
Invehcakoill, This day. An inquest was held yesterday at the Woodlands railway station on the body of a male child found in a water-hole near Woodlands last Saturday. Dr Galbraith, having made a post mortem examination, gave evidence that the body was in an advanced state of decomposition. He .supposed the infant to have been dead three weeks. The injuries were confined to the skull and a wound on the left arm. He did not think it had lived long after birth, from the. absence of any change in the umbilical cord, although it had fully breathed. Ho could not say whether the injuries were received before or after death. It bad not, when born, boon attended by a medical man or by a qualified nurse. On the application of the police the inquest was adjourned for three weeks. No clue is yet obtainable with regard to the injury to the infant's head, where there aro very extensive horizontal and vertical fractures.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3775, 21 August 1883, Page 3
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165CASE OF INFANTICIDE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3775, 21 August 1883, Page 3
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