Alleged Child Murder
• ■■ o > ' Agnes Morgan, a servant girl at the Takapua hotel; was confined early on Thursday morning, unknown to anyone. Subsequently a woll-developed male child •was found concealed under her b ed, dead. The landlord- communicated with the police, and an inquest will be held. Dr Mirbach is making a post mortem examination. Rumors of very suspicious circumstances are flying about. — Napier Evening News. £PKB VSITBV PEBSS ASBOCIATIOX.] ; ; Waipawa, This Day. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday at Takapau on the body of the newly-born infant of Agnes Morgan. The evidence showed that the child had lived, but apparently had .been smothered in, some -way immediately ' after birth; whether intentionally pr not will be decided in Supreme Oo,urfc, as the verdict was practically iianfcajrwfftinir man «y fffot^r. .
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 76, 5 December 1885, Page 3
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