PATEA, Last Night.
Mary O'Sullivan, a widow, whose husband was killed by a vehicle accident here eighteen months ago, was arrested last evening for infanticide. The body of a female child, over a week old, was found wrapped in an old towel under the house by some children. On their alarm she removed it, telling them it was a little pig. When the police arrived, she was in the act of carrying it away in a kit. A string was found tied tightly round its neck, and she remarked, on being removed to the station, that she supposed she would get two or three years,
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1519, 30 March 1882, Page 2
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105PATEA, Last Night. Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1519, 30 March 1882, Page 2
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