ALLEGED BABY MURDER.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 8. Matilda Morris, who stands charged with the murder of her three weeks old son, was brought down from Otaki to-night, and lodged in the Terrace prison. The Magisterial hearing of the case and the inquest on the remains of the infant were formally opened and adjourned until Friday and Monday of next week, respectively. The accused woman is well-known in the Otaki district. She had spent the 26 years of her life there, 'and her father had been a well-known man in the settlement. The baby had been missiftg for a fortnight, and the mother had given no satisfactory account of what had become of it. At last she showed. a detective the spot in the bush where a little body lay buried. The place of burial was concealed with dead leaves.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8353, 9 February 1907, Page 6
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141ALLEGED BABY MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8353, 9 February 1907, Page 6
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