FOUR CHILDREN DISAPPEAR.
i ALLEGED BABY FARMING CASE. ' EMINENT COUNSEL iO DEFEND. Daniel Richard Cooper and Martha , Cooper were before tlie Court at Wcl- ' liugton ou Wednesday on charges of unlawfully detaining an infant child, and the mule accused with supplying -A. Sutherland with a noxious thing, ■ knowing the same to bo used for an 1 illegal purpose, and were remanded uaj til January 21. An application for bull by the it-mak- accused wa, strongly opposed by Mr Macaise-y for th-s Crown, as i; be said to defeat the ends of justice at various time*. Four illegitimate children had been plaeod in charge of the accused and they had failed to give au account of three of them, and had made contradictory; statements concerning the fourth. Be- ] sides, the body of a child had boon • buried on the premises recently occu- | pied by the accused. In these circumj stances, if bail was granted, there might he very serious # . ' f <-'-. Bail I was not allowed.
ft is understood that Messrs T. M Wilford and A. Hanlon have been retained to defend the accueed.
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Otaki Mail, 19 January 1923, Page 2
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