SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1925, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

I >-*»«<<= [BY TELEGRAPH —l’Kll PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WOMAN ON TRIAL. PALMERSTON N.. Fob. 4. \t the Supremo Court. Eileen Rrer W ns charged that, at Otnki on November 14th, she did murder a newly norn child. The Crown Prosecutor said the iceused had been employed as a domestic l,v the occupier of a cottage on the Otnko beach, and while there she bad n-iven birth to a child. The next morning the dead body of a male child ua.s found near the water’s edge. L js alleged that the child was accused s and that she murdered it. A medical practitioner would testify the body was that of a healthy full time baby with fullv developed lungs, that it had breathed, and further that the child had tlied by exposure, and not drown-

Constable Satherl.v, in evidence, said the accused admitted the birth of a baby, ami having taken it down to the'heath in a blanket. . . . Or Sharp, cross-examined, said that he did not consider the accused quite normal when under bis care (allowing the occurrence He also said it was possible the baby might have died before being placed near the water a for the accused addressed the ; ur y, and His Honour summed up. Tho jury then retired.