ALLEGED MURDER BY A MOTHER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8736, 9 February 1907, Page 2

ALLEGED MURDER BY A MOTHER.

Per Press Association. "WEriLiN'OTON, February 8.

Matilda Morris, who stands charged with the murder of her threc-wceks'-old son, was brought down from Otaki to-night and lodged in the Terrace prison. The magisterial hearing of the case, and the inquest on tho remains of the infant were formally opened and adjourned until .Friday and Monday of next week respectively. The accused woman is well-known in the Otaki district. She had spent the 2(5 years of her life there, and her father had been a well-known man in the settlement. The baby had been missing for a fortnight, and the mother had given no satisfactory account of what had become of it. At last she showed a detective a spot in the bush where a little body lay buried. The place of burial was concealed with dead leaves.