The Oamaru Infanticide Case
[FER V9VW& RBB«W.ABB6CfATIOK.j T^e 4fokrge*gainst Agnes Sargeson concluded to-day. The circumstances are.that the remsjna of a child were house that prjsonar had lived in. .". The prisoner had removed from tEe^hpuj^ telling the neighbors that Mrs Scott of the- Taieri, had called and; U ten the child away. The evidencesbowed no , such .perapn Uved at the puce mentioned- The remains of thejpbjld, found were much mutilated, but owing to their advanced otat« of de-, conapositiontTery, little evidenc© could be gleaned from 'the pbst mortem. The doctors tould not agree as the causetpf death, but ,the doctor who attended tijechildren four or fire days before its disappearance, in evidence said it could not live as it was dying .when, he saw, it. . v .', The. plea set; up tras that the child died natural death, and that the mother had buried: it in the 1 yard, the' mutilation being caused by the spade in burial. A. ' Terdict of not gWt^ Was rstipmed. . . ;■
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 108, 19 March 1887, Page 2
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163The Oamaru Infanticide Case Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 108, 19 March 1887, Page 2
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