YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS
INTBRPROYIN CIAL.
[per PRESS AGENCY.]
Suspected Child Murder in Wellington Fatal Mining Accident at KumaraAuckland, September 18.
The Union Sash and Door Company have ordered £12,000 worth of new machinery from a local foundry, of a class which has hitherto been imported. Wellington, September 18.
Mary Ann Trueman, wife of a shoemaker, and her daughter, Ellen Mudgeway, have just been arrested on a charge of murdering the newly-born child of one of her (Trueman’s) daughters. The crime was committed about three weeks ago.
7 p.m. The two women who were arrested to-day, charged with child murder, were brought before the Resident Magistrate, and were remanded. The police have since found the body of the child buried in quick-lime, in a shed on Trueman’s premises. Kumaba, September 18. A fall of earth occurred in the tunnel of Jones’s claim at Dillman’s. Two men were buried, but were extricated in an hour and a half by relays of miners. One man, named Irvine, was taken out alive. His ankle is badly contused. The other man, named Jonathan Clements, was dead.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1009, 19 September 1877, Page 2
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