DISCOVERY OF A HEADLESS BABY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 10 December 1907, Page 3

DISCOVERY OF A HEADLESS BABY.

MOTHER CHARGED WiIT'Hl - .MURDER., A SHOCKING' CASE.' PreSs Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. 1 Florence .Farndale, a married wo-, man, aged 32, appeared at the Police Const, to-day, charged with having murdered her infant child, Marion Farndale, whose headless, body is’ alleged to have been found an the harbor recently. She was remanded for eight days. Accused _ has stated she is the. wife, of a medical man -in the Congo. Her father is said to be a resident in the "Waikato;.-' Slie lias latterly been staying at a boardinghouse in Symonds stretft with her two children. [A shocking discovery was made at Ponsonby, Auckland, on Friday evening. While some boys .were playing ■on the beach at the foot oif Sentinelroad they came across the headless body of an infant, which had evidently been cast up by the tide, the body was that of a female infant, ' about a month old, and was clad in . a light singlet, with two pieces, of flannelette around the lower extremities. It had evidently been in the water formation t a fortnight. fChe iat the child could not have into the water, of its own accord, and that it was "so scanti|y clad, would seem to point to it being a deliberate case of infanticide. How the. head came to- he severed . from the body is a matter for conjecture, but it is provable that it was bitten off by a shark. There were no marks on the clothing bv which the child could he identified.]