THE GIRL'S CONFESSION
The unfortunate girl first confessed her crime in a letter to a friend, says the Wairarapa Times, and subsequently to a medical man and Constabfe Smart. Ik appears, from the girl's statement, that while alona in her room at thß residence of Mr Bayliss, baker (where she was in ser vice), on Sunday afternoon, she wan confined. She cut the child's throat with a pair of scissors, and, crushing the body into a vessel, placed the whole into a clothes-box, pushing the box under the bed. She then went about her work as usual, but complained of feeling unwell. Hoi condition, both of mind and body, can therefore be imagined ; it is too horrifying to describe ; and the unfortunate woman does not even now seem to realise her position. Con stable Smart carried the accused across to the Police Station from Mr Bayliss', wrapped in blankets, and at once engaged a nuras to attend her. The girl made a clean breast of every detail, even staling where the pcissore, which the crime was committed with, were hidden.
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Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1898, Page 3
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180THE GIRL'S CONFESSION Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1898, Page 3
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