INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
- ■ •■ - -^ Curistceubch, September 5. The body of a ncw«born female child in a sack was found yesterday afternoon in the river Henthcote, near the Ferry Bridge. There were no marks of violence on the body, which had apparenlly been about 48 hours in water. Sophia Jones, 16 years of age, and a servant at the He&thcote Arms Hotel, was arrested on suspicion of beihjj the mother nf the infant. She was brought up at the R. Ai. Court and remanded until Friday. The inquest on the child has been adjourned for a week. No eyidence lias yet been offered m tbe case. Wellington, This Day. The Mariposa with the English mails of August 6 left San Francisco for Auckland on the 20th of the same month one day late. The Monowai with the Colonial mails of the 13th inst, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the Ist inst, contract date. A charge of criminal libel, preferred against E. A. Haggen, Proprietor and publisher of the Woodville Examiner, by William Symes, chemist, Woodville, was heard in the Supreme, Court to-day. After 15 minutes deliberation the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Gisborne, This Day. Walter Frost Oxenhain, bushfeller, was killed yesterday at Waimate. Auckland, This Day. James Walker, produce merchant, when driving last night to a Masonic meeting at Wairoa South, suddenly gasped and expired. He leaves a wife and daughter. Hokitika, September 5. The Supreme Court was occupied all day on the Conlon alleged poisoning case. Most of the evidence up to 5.30 p.m. was similar to that given at the magisterial enquiry, but special pains were taken to bring out points showing the likelihood or not of the poison being purchased to kill rats ; also that Conlon had arranged to move to another house some distance away. The theory of the prosecution, as shadowed by the Crown Prosecutor's address, is that the accused was very fond of a niiin named Stringer, who had paid for her board and promised to marry her. Finding herself enciente, she married Conlon to save her reputation, and then poisoned him to get rid of him.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 34, 6 September 1892, Page 2
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