THE LATE CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH AT CAMBRIDGE, SAD SEQUEL. SUSPECTED MUEDER. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Auckland, Last Night. Mitch excitement was manifested in town by the discovery of a supposed case of murder. Sarah Johnson, who was committed for trial at Cambridge for concealment of birth and admitted to bail, arrived in town on Monday week, and soon afterwards was taken violently ill, the symptoms being great bodily prostration, accompanied by vomiting. Acting under pressure of his mother, Cleaver, the seducer of the girl, married her on what was supposed to be her deathbed, and soon afterwards she died. The funeral was to have taken place this afternoon, but suspicions being aroused a, post mortem examination of the body was made, and arsenic found in the stomach. It is quiteevident the girl died from poison, and there is no reason whatever to suppose it is a case of suicide. The police are certain the girl has been murdered, but no arrest has yet been made.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1585, 31 August 1882, Page 2
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165THE LATE CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH AT CAMBRIDGE, SAD SEQUEL. SUSPECTED MUEDER. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1585, 31 August 1882, Page 2
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