ALLEGED SERIOUS CRIME.
The body of a fully developed male child was discovered by two children on May 31st at a spot 15 yards from the railway line and half-a-mi’e from Woodville on the Palmerston side, wrapped in a piece of oilcloth and brown paper, the whole parcel being placed in a green shooting bag purchased from a Woodville tradesman. At the inquest on the body the doctor certified that the child had lived and had met its death by strangulation. The police at once set to work and arrested two persons near Daunevirke on a charge of having committed the murder.
At the Woodville Police Court on Saturday, John Clive, roadman, Dannevirke, and Alice Maude Shepherd, domestic, were brought up and charged with the murder of an infant, the body of which was found in a town sewer here a fortnight ago. The police applied for a remand till next Friday, which was granted. Bail was refused.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 462, 15 June 1909, Page 3
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158ALLEGED SERIOUS CRIME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 462, 15 June 1909, Page 3
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