CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH
CONVICTION IN HARLAND CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Stuart Cecil Harland and Heatherbell E. Harland, who were acquitted on August 14 last on a charge of murdering their infant female child, were arraigned in the Supreme Court this morning, before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) and a jury, on two other charges arising out of the same circumstances. The counts were: (1) That on or about June 17, 1922, they caused the death of a child, which had not become a human being, in such a manner that they would have been guilty of murder if such child had been born. (2) That they disposed of the dead body of their child with intent to conceal the fact that such child had been born. The hearing lasted all day, and the jury, after a retirement of an hour and forty minutes, and after viewing the spot where the body was found, brought in a verdict of guilty on the second count, with a recommendation to mercy for the female accused on account of her youth. Both accused were remanded till Saturday for sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1922, Page 5
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189CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1922, Page 5
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