A CHARGE OF MURDER.
Press Association. Auckland, December 30. At the inquest on a headless infant found in the harbor, Detective Norville stated that when he questioned Mrs Farndale, the woman arrested on a murder charge, she stated that the infant was in the Salvation Army Home. He conveyed her|there in a cab and on arrival she admitted that the child was not there, and added: “I took hahy a\Vay at dusk on Tuesday and went for a blow up the harbour on the ferry boat. Baby was restless. I walked up and down and then sat it on the side rail of the steamer, which lurched, and baby fell overboard. ” She added that she was too scared to tell anyone on the steamer or at the boardinghouse, and expressed regret that she had told so many lies. She sobbed violently •while making this statement.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 20 December 1907, Page 8
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145A CHARGE OF MURDER. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 20 December 1907, Page 8
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