Concealment of Birth.
The case now perdiugiu' the Cunstchurch B. M. ConffcV' »g a i ns k ..^h, 1 " 66 women' %Kd'are> charged with ' concealment of birth, has 'so'ino rather fixtraorditiary { 'f«jl^alf^S m. 'connection .with it. •It ap>eUrs j^ays^itie Press) 'thUt 1 soitie; T>oW playing in 'thi garden at tach*d to Blouse -ifi-'IJeW-Btrefet,': Gliti^tchdrch, iouncf this de^d bodjF of a child, wrapped/ m browii paper.: .The 1 body had been' buriedj^btitj.'ih'e "earlh . covering it had been accidentally' reitioved again. Ihe house was rented by a wotnan named Ada Boyd who,had four othpr wonien. namecr Aii'ce Hulbert, Ada arid Alice and' Amy iJ'yson' hVmg with Lher'as lodgers. The last-n.-uied subsequently died a sndden death, and IBe; reinlt of ah : inquest held : showed thatf her decease was diid to '" natural causes." However, upon, hearing that the' eKild liad been' found ' m the gard^, J: tb : e Ti tbre'ft women, the' Willets and ; Pulbert, removed it and buried' it m another spot more" "rjemote from their residence; 'fine pblibe :: having become possessed of information arrested them on a charge of concealment of birth, Wliich 6wjtVthe^WTa'''|sm^aflmtttpa,,The -woman Boyd has also been ar.^ rested on w.arrantjaf (aniaru, charged with the'SanferieffHnce! ;-' THe wmains 'of the child ar? now "lying ,m the police morgue. ?B that some Btartlingv;disclosutes ;will >b&«iflade m couneQti,onnWJth; this case.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 131, 10 May 1883, Page 3
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217Concealment of Birth. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 131, 10 May 1883, Page 3
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