A WANGANUI SENSATION.
BY TEIiBSRAPH PIIESS ASSOCIATION. WANGANUI, August 28.
At the Police Court, this morning, Letitia Broad was ch»rged with having at Wanganui on August 17th abandoned an infant under the age of two years. This was the outco no of -tha sensational finding of a child in a coal-box. The evidence showed that a ■young woman gave birth to an illegi - timate child -in Dunedin, and in re spunse to an advertisement asking for some person to adopt the infant Mrs Broad offered t) take it for £4O. •ihissum was eventually paid, together with £lO for legal expenses. Mrs Broad brought the child to Wanganui and deposited it in a'coal-box. Accused wlas com nitted for trial at th! Supreme Co irt at Palmerst jn Nor';h on-September Bth.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9178, 29 August 1908, Page 3
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129A WANGANUI SENSATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9178, 29 August 1908, Page 3
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