AN AUCKLAND MURDER CHARGE.
STATEMENT BY THE MOTHER
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 20. At the inquest on the headless infant, which was resumed to-day, Detective Denorville stated that when he questioned Mrs Farndale, the woman arrested on a murder charge, f-hestated that the infant was in the 1 Salvation Army Home. He conveyed her there in a cab. On arrial she admitted that the child was not there, and added: "I took baby away on'/Tuesday; went for a blow up the harbour on a ferry-boat. The baby was restless, and I walked up and down, then set it on the side rail of the steamer which lurched and baby fell overboard." She added that she was too scared to tell anyone on the steamer or at the board-ing-house, and expressed regret that she had told so many lies. She sobbed violently while making this statement.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9011, 21 December 1907, Page 5
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146AN AUCKLAND MURDER CHARGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9011, 21 December 1907, Page 5
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