DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1917, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

WOMAN CUARtitiD WITH MUKDEit. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchureh, tyec. 21. Winifred Carrick, a single aged 27, was charged witli the wilful murder of lier son, Donald Lewis Carriek, aged three years, at Addington, on December 0. Mr. Kaymond, outlining the ease for the. Grown, said that it was alleged that the motive for the crime lay in Hie state of mind of the accused following on imprisonment, for two years for abandoning the child. Dr. Scott detailed the injuries to the child's skull, which was fractured, and also examined certain clothing produced, finding the bottom of a skirt damp, as was the handbag he examined. William Hart, clerk of the Magised at the court offie'e on November 27. A tmtctrate's Court, said that accused callsummons had been issued for maintenance and after considerable discussion she consented to an order for live shillings weekly, but protested that she was unable to alford it, Mrs. Green, a member of the Hospital Board, deposed that she visited accused in gaol and urged her to allow proceedings to be taken against the child's father, but accused was obdurate in refusing to give the man's name, saving she did not know who the father really was, as he had given her a false name. Witness' impression was that accused was determined to shield the man.