FATHER MURDERS HIS CHILD.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1918, Page 5

FATHER MURDERS HIS CHILD.

'■> BUBUjTG FIT OF INSANITY. : By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Nov. 1. An inquest was held before Mr. Rawsou on Joan Violet Morine, aged three months, the victim of an attack by her father, at Naike on October 23. ' The evidence of the mother.was to the effect that her husband stayed at home from the 20th to the 23rd of October, during which time he complained of being ill. About 5 p.m. on the 23rd, witness, her husband, and the child were in the house together. While witness wag speaking in the 'phone to a" neighbor she heard the child scream, and ran into the room, when she the child lying on the bed with blood streaming from er eyes. Her husband had a table fork in his hand. She asked how he could hurt a baby like that, and he replied that it had to be done- She told her husband, who she know must be out of his mind (he had been in the asylum before) to go and get the cows, and then she rang up Mrs. Griffen, and asked her to come to her assistance and get a doctor Before Mrs. Griffen arrived, witness' husband returned and tried to get into the house, but she had the door fastened. With Mrs. Griffen, she went with the. child to anoter neighbor's. On Dr. Martin's arrival the child was attended to and taken to the hospital, A verdict was returned that deceased died from injuries inflicted by her father, who was undoubtedly insane. Morine was not. present, Dr. Stride's certificate, stating that he was of uysound mind.