CHILD MURDER IN WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 17, 18 December 1883, Page 2

CHILD MURDER IN WELLINGTON.

' 7[y7e]lington Papdr.] A crime of a s3iocking and pitiful character came to light on Satttfday morning., A domestic servant, haine^l Kate Boyle, aged 19, bright and intelligent, went into domestic service about two yeai'.s ago in the "Wairarapa district., What friendly or other relations she formed there remain to be disclosed, but she came back to her widowed" mother in Wellington about four months* since, and then engaged as domestic servant to the family of Mr D. T. Stuart, ' Willis-street. There ' she remained, and guve much satisfaction as a domestic servant, her behavior : being also quiet and proper. Latterly, her con dition attracted attention, and her mother was spoken ; to, but she— in ignorance or otherwiHo-r-gave assurance" that her daughter .was always stout in figure. • This .lulled .suspicion for a time until both the girl and her mother wei-e ! again spoken to, and formal notice ! was given that the girl muat leave the house. Before this notice expired, suspicion became more than confirmed. The girl appears to have got up about 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, 1 and, going into thewash-house, waa there, delivered of a child, The nurse girl, Elizabeth Richards, got up at 7 o'clock, and noticing that J&ate was not about the house, she went to the back, and found her lying on the floor in the wash-house, covered with d,n ulster,, though unable or unwilling to . ,Bpcak. . Mrs Stuart being informed, several female neighbors were sent for, and medical aid. Dr .llawson; Arrived, arid finding evidences of child-birth, but no

baby risible, he made a search. tfhe girl was able to speak by this time, though what she said need not be slated at this stage, as formal evidence will hare to be givan in due course when Bhe is sufficiently recovered. D r Rawsoh found in the fire-grate under the copper the body of a female child, wrapped in old canvas tied twice round the neck, and one end stuffed in the mouth. The skull had heen battered in till it was quite soft, and on the floor was a pool of blood, and & lon* bl unfc ****£&!** .witk blood._ iergeant Anderson was informed of the horrid affair $doa after 0 otolhbk/ and Dotectwe Chrystal was despatched to. collect evidence and assist "Di- Ra«-son in his painful duty. The detective went in plain clothes, and the unfortunate «ml was judidously kept in ignorance of the police inquiries. The, infcnt body was removedto the .Morgue, jand tbe\City Coroner directed a post-mortem^exami-nation to he made. -It .; that the child was fully developed 'The nnfortunato girl was removal jtp the Hospital m the afternoon; and as- her condition was rather critical, she had to be put on a stretcher and conveyed carefully in a covered van. Since then she has improved ami the report of her condition yesterday was 'favorable' to "recovery An inquest^ thejufHnt- JB^ath < was to be opened V the "City 'X'oion'er yesterday afternoon,, at the Morgue