The Sydney Infanticide Case.

Manawatu Herald, 15 November 1892, Page 2

The Sydney Infanticide Case.

- • -*■ The inquests on four of the children whose bodies were disinterred resulted in an open verdiot, there being no evidence to criminally connect the Makins with their death. The police, however, are believed to have stronger evidence in some of the later cases. , _ , „, The bodies of two more children 1 suspected of being murdered by the Makins have been discovered. When tha occupants moved into the premises after the Makins had vacated them, a piece of cloth bearing blood stains was found along with a number af bonnet pins. This discovery goes in the direction of confirming the theory advanced that the unfortunate infants were deprived of life by puncturing the heart with a thin, sharp instrument, or driving some instrument into the spinal cord. One of the bodies previously found bore an indication of a puncture in the breast, though the remains were too decomposed to enable it to be definitely ascertained whether the wound was inflicted before or after death. The floor of another residence formerly occupied by the prisoners i 3 being taken up by the police. The present tenauts, who suoceeded the Makins, deteoted a great stench, and it is known that the floor was removed and replaced while the premises were in occupation of the late tenants. The digging operations of the police create intense interest, A strong chain of evidence obtained by the police proves without the slightest possibility of doubt that the children were cruelly murdered, — Press Association.