The Infanticide Case.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4871, 20 August 1884, Page 2

The Infanticide Case.

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':.'-.,: ■''-"■''' '■':-y'/-.y:'.AiJGKik»i>i Last niglit..,: A charge of wilful murder has been laid against RosinaEmify Smith in regard to the death of her baby. She was bronght before the Magistrate, aud the case : was remanded till the 26th mat. It has traps pired that the accused prooeeded to the office of the Registrar of births, marriages, and deaths yesterday, and there registered the birth of her child in the name of Emily Wilson (she gave her own name as Rosina Emily^Smith, and the father's es William Wilson.^ Three months ago she opened a :baby«Jinen-''|^op:;inV/:XBrangah:ape^:ibad f '.: under the name of Miss Wilson {IKe'stiop Was fitted bu£ ibr here by^ a man named WiUon, a carpenter, to whom it was understood ihe wan engaged to be married.

The inquest on the child will be held on Thursday. In the meantime an autopsy will be made, which will probably lead to the discovery of the truth or falsity of.the laudanum story. The accused has refused to take any food since she has been in custody, and it is stated she has neither eaten nor. drank since Sunday last. Lateb.—This day.

Eosina Smith still maintains the strictest silence regarding her antecedents', and refuses to gire auy information regarding the father of the child. The police have discovered that some months ago she was employed in a hotel at Cambridge, Waikato, and amongst her effects a small bottle of laudanum has been found. A gentleman when talking to prisoner on Saturday night, heard the child cry, and saw it move in her arms. This was at geven o'clock, and at twenty minutes past seven the prisoner was back at Mr Wakeham's, a good ten minutes walk, from Mason's gardens. The police theory con sequentlv is that she buried the ohild alive. An inquest will be held to-morrow at two o'clock.