MORSE ACQUITTED
MURDER OF NINE INFANTS
DECISION PROVES POPULAR
(Received May 31, 11 a.m.).
NEW YORK, May 30. Winifred Ankers, the nursa accused of poisoning nine babies,, was acquitted on tho charge. A crowd in Court cli cored t<lie \oi-
. • diet. The worn SWT ollogecl th at coiitession Iliad -been, obtained from her by the police' under throats t'hat they would •take away her bahv.
(At the be(_ r imiing of the present ■year, nine babies died in the Brooklyn infants' Hospital. The cause was a mystery fur a time, but in February Winifred Ankers, a kitchen woman, confessed to the police that she had placed oxalic acid in the babies milk .bottles.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10648, 1 June 1912, Page 5
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113MORSE ACQUITTED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10648, 1 June 1912, Page 5
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