BABY’S BODY IN DRAIN
DECOMPOSED STATE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS (Per Press Association.) WI-lAKATANE, this clay. Police Inquiries are being made into the discovery of a naked decomposed body of a newly-born female child in a drain near Whakatanc. Medical opinion is that the child, which had -breathed, had been in the drain from four to eight weeks, but owing to its condition it is difficult to say whether it is Maori or European, though a doctor is inclined to believe it is the former. There are no' signs of violence. The investigation is complicated by the fact that the drain is a deep, wide one which runs for several miles, and the infant may have been placed in it at any point.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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121BABY’S BODY IN DRAIN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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