A SHOCKING CRIME.
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.J INVERCARGILL, This day. On Saturday, two little children —the son and daughter of Edwin Kidd—were playing on the main road from Woodlands to Mabel, about 200 j'ards from their father’s house and a quarter of a mile from the township of Woodlands, when they found a strange-looking bundle in a water-hole at the end of a box culvert. The juvenile’s curiosity prompted them to and the startling discovery was made that the bundle consisted of the body of a male child wrapped up in a Dunedin paper and an old rag. The children informed their father and he telegraphed to the police in Invercargill, and Detective Ede proceeded to the spot. Kidd, keeping the occurrence from the knowledge of the neighbours, had preserved a strict watch on the body. On examination it was found that the child was fully developed, , and had probably lived for a day or two. The skull was fearfully smashed, one porlion of it being entirely broken off the body, winch also bore marks of violence. The corpse apparently had been in the water some days, and the wounds had a unmistakable appearance of being wilfully inflicted.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1075, 20 August 1883, Page 3
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197A SHOCKING CRIME. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1075, 20 August 1883, Page 3
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