Child Murder.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 285, 29 October 1884, Page 2

Child Murder.

A servant-girl named Periy waslsepi to the post-office, Uxbridge, ro post -ie.t- , lera. She tpok- (With; her a ' chi.ici 'in jk' perftnibulator,., and was s^tf'leisb'rely' fgoing.. along: the road reading a ! bobki .{Styk child. began to cry, and the girl.lost* ner^emper at the interruptiop. : : Perjcy ( then io'ofca 1 scarf from her owmnecljc, f arid tied it so tightly • round the neck of ' "the. child as to cause its i almost, iinino- . > diate, death : .b,y , suffocation J Th : e' ■ piV, . then .wfi.nt to. the poligp st.ationj ! and'gaye J .vhe.rse.lf ] up, . saying she 'had \ committed' .murder, She was afterwardaiv placed: upon' lie r| trikl, and in' crPsg^examination. it was elicited that she-had always pre- I viously treated the- child w^th every kindness, and the terrible iact' 'appeared to be . quite i; inconsistent withV-the idea : )tbat, prisoperwas m her, right senses at j the time. It was endeavoured 'to be | shown that the scarf had been tied too tightly by accident. She was.aentejuced. to fifteen months' hard labour.