FOUND IN A SUIT CASE
DEAD BODY OF AN INFANT. 4 Press Association. DUNEDIN, October 1». At an inquest to-day on tho body of an infant found in a suit case in a chemist's shop on September 22nd, in connection with which a single young woman, Alary Walder, is charged with murder, the evidence showed that tho girl, wbo had been in domestic service in Dunedin, went homo to Lawreno© on September 17th, returning to Dunedin on September 32nd with her mother and bringing a suit case with her. The mother was unaware of the birth of the child until her daughter had been visited by adootor on September 22nd. Medical evidence was given to the effect that death was due to asphyxia, and that with the exercise of ordinary care the child would have lived. The depositions of an inquest held on May 29th, 1916, on the body of a child of the same woman were put in. A verdict that death tuas due to asphyxia was returned.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 5
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169FOUND IN A SUIT CASE New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 5
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