A Fiena in Human Form.
■. . -. ♦ — . '- A woman named,- Elizabeth Roberts % was recently charged'b v ef6re the Chesler magistrates with attempting to murder , her infant.' Bo'berta^ while under the influence of drink, heized heu infant, ' which was just beginning to walk, and pitched it on the fire; Elizabeth Antrobus, a neighbour, snatched the child away from the but the prisoner struggled with her, and, obtaining possession of he^ infant exclaimed, "1 will fin|sb; yißttoff jiow," and again flung it m grate., bns recovered the*fiichlld, r tand loudly screamed for helpj and before assistance: arrived {he'pnsoner pitched the child into the fire a third timey and being i frustrated m her endeavours to kill it m thatiway, sh% trie r d to/fling-a kettle of *\ boiling water *bver it. *The child was taken to* the infiimatory, where, its wounds were dressed. The wbinati was. committed for trial, and waa-Bis^'Ky 1 the wojmeri L in gofljtjSfSheiW.asrled to* the cells below. < i i ; ' *
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 145, 28 May 1883, Page 3
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158A Fiena in Human Form. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 145, 28 May 1883, Page 3
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