ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.
A YOUNG WOMAN CHARGED,
[By Telegraph—Press Association.]
Dunedin, last night. At the Police Court Elizabeth Hiscock, aged 20, was charged with the murder of a male infant, about June Ist. The body was found wrapped in brown paper, on the roadside, by the driver of a baker’s cart. At the inquest then held Dr Gordon McDonald said that the child had been bom alive, and death had been caused by violence of some description, probably suffocation. A verdict was returned that death resulted from personal violence inflicted by some person or persons unknown. On Friday evening the detectives arrested the woman at the Pier Hotel, where she is employed as a domestic. The ease was remanded until the 19th. The mother is supposed to live in Wellington.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 184, 12 August 1901, Page 3
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