A BABY BURNED.
YOUNG WOMAN'S CRIME, By Telegraph —Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. A young woman pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to a charge of concealment of birth, and was committed for sentence. She gave birth to a child at a house in the country where she was employed as 'a domestic servanl, and the child was still-born. The following morning she attempted to bury it in the garden, but her strength being insufficient, she burned the body in the kitchen range.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1920, Page 5
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84A BABY BURNED. Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1920, Page 5
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