CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER.
Haavera, This day
Josephine Green Avas yesterday brought up on remand on a charge of child murder. The Rev. Mr AVilliams, Wesleyan minister, to whom the girl said sho had given tho child, deposed that he had only spoken to her once, and knew nothing of the child. A baby's dress and flannels, much soiled, Avere found in a hedge doAvn in a gully near here. Mrs Hughes, mid-wife, said she made tho flannels, and tho child Avas Avearing them Avhen the mother took her aAvay.
Tho theory of the defence is that the child Avas given to George AVilliams, a married man,°the father of the child, Avho is supposed to bo living in the forty-mile bush. Every effort is to be made to discover him, and a .special constable is to be sent to trace him.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3783, 30 August 1883, Page 3
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141CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3783, 30 August 1883, Page 3
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