Gisborne Infanticide Case.
A Distressing Sto y.
By Telegraph,—Press Association. Gisborne, this day. In the case against May Heeney, charged with causing the death of her infant, William Shellard doposed that ho took accused for a drivo on a recent Sunday. She was in good health and spirits until they had gone seven miles, when, complaining of a headache, she got out of tho trap, Sho was absent about fifteen minutes, Ou her return to the trap witness heard what he thought was a lamb bleating from the direction in which sha camo. She re-entered tho trap, and they continued their drive, returning to town lato at night. tVhen slio came bank to tho trap witness, noticing some blood on her hand and foot, asked if she had given birth to a child, but sho made no reply,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1161, 3 December 1904, Page 3
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138Gisborne Infanticide Case. Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1161, 3 December 1904, Page 3
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