ACQUITTED
MANSLAUGHTER charge
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association
NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 24
The death of a Maori child, aged sixteen months, at Katamarae Pa, near Hawera, on October 20, resulted in a charge of manslaughter against a Maori woman, named Mahore, aged forty years, before the Chief Justice to-day: She was acquitted by the jury. The charge was previously one of murder, but the Grand Jury reduced it to manslaughter. The story told by the witnesses was that Mahore adopted the child of a sick relative, and kept it in the whare with her own three children. The children caused the baby to ory, and Mahere (Slapped i.t to stop its crying. Tlie child continued to cry and Mahere admitted that she punched it on the chin. She said that then the child would, not wake up, so she threw water over it." Help was summoned. The doctor found that the child was dead. Mr L. A. Taylor, for the defence, put Mahere in the box. She told her story weeeping. Summing up, the Judge said that there had never been anv suggestion fbnt, Mahere struck the child with tlm intention to harm it.
The jury returned in half an bom with the verdict of not guilty.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1930, Page 3
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