The Infanticide Case.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 January 1891, Page 2

The Infanticide Case.

THE INQUEST. VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER AGAINST MRS AND MISS FLANAGAN. The inquest on the head of a child found in Gloucester street was heard on Friday in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurcb. In«p i ctor Pender conducted the case. Mr Stringer appeared on behalf of Daniel, Annie, and Sarah Jane Flanagan. Dr Mooorhouse deposed that he attended Sarah Flanagan who was confined n the 13th of December of a male ohild. The father and mother were present. The g>rl admitted that the father of the child was away on the West Coast. On the following Monday he did not see the child as it was taken away to a nurse on the previous day. Dr Sycnes deposed to the detective handing him the child's head on the 7th January. It was that of a matured child severed from the neck at the junction of the head with the spine by two clear outs. The face presented two gaping wonnds. Witness described the wounds in detail, which were caused by a blow or a fall, probably daring life. The wounds must have been ma f lo by a sharp instrument other than a tomahawk. He had examined Sarah Flanagan, and found an marks on her, The chill hud been dead a frtW d*ys. Charles Adams, Constable Sturmer, and Rosa Corlin, deposed