THE ALLEGED INFANTICIDE CASE.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HAWERA, August 30. Josephine Green was yesterday bfonght np upon remand charged with child murder. Mr T. Hutchison defended.’ The Rev, Mr Williams, Wesleyan Minister, lo whom the girl said site had given the child, deposed that he had only spoken to prisoner once, ami knew nothing of the child. A buliy’s dress and flannels, much soiled, were found in a hedge down in n gully near here. Mrs Hughes, midwife, swore she made the dress and flannels, and that the child was wearing them when the mother took it away. The theory cf the defence is that the child was given lo George Williams, a marman, father of the child, who is supposed to be living at the Eortymilo Bnsh. Every effort is to be made by the police to discover him, and a - special policeman is to be sent to trace him.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1080, 31 August 1883, Page 3
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151THE ALLEGED INFANTICIDE CASE. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1080, 31 August 1883, Page 3
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