MURDER CHARGE.
YOUNG GIRL IN TROUBLE,
Wellington, To-day,
Before Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., m the 'Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, Agnes Eliza Mcphain was charged wilii the murder of her infant child at Johnsonville.
A little girl described how she hud found, the. body of an infant child lying partly on its side in a creek where she was playing at-Johnson-ville,
It was pointed out that the accused, in a statement to a detective, admitted having given birth to a male child at her parents’ residence in Porirua, and having placed a tape round its throat. She did not know if the infant was alive or not, and leapt the body for three days under the mattress of her lied. Later she disposed of it at a creek in Johnsonville. '
Dr. Hector gave evidence as to having - examined the body and found death to be due to asphyxia, The Magistrate committed the accused to the Supreme Court for trip I. /At the cdfbnial inquiry, Dr. Hector stated that he held a post-mor-tem examination of the body, and, in his opinion, death was due to asphyxia, caused by a tape being placed round the child’s neck.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2153, 22 July 1920, Page 3
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194MURDER CHARGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2153, 22 July 1920, Page 3
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