SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2229, 21 October 1886, Page 2

SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ()AM\RU, Mednpsday. Mas SouußNtfox, charged with the minder <-f her child, was brought befoic the Bench yesteiday, and remanded for a week. At the inquest on the remains of the, child, Arthur Toms deposed that ttorgonson took the hou>e froii, him, <uid borrowed ;v tomahawk to chop some wood, and afterwanK lx>ii owed a spado. Tn answer to w ltne-s slm s.ud she wanted to bury mmp nightsoil. When witness went out between five and six o'clock he saw ttorgenvm corning fiom some oiitlion-es, and when slu- In-n she appealed stalled. ])eteetive OBrien CMllod upon witness, ,md witness showrd hint where two holes had been made, in the gaiden recently occupied by Soitfcns'in, Ho li.id previously spoken to Detective O'l'iien about the nutter. Detectno OBrien went and searched the premivj*. Witness went in and h'nis-ho'l Ins breakfast. A few minutes .ifterwaids Detective OBrien called witness, and upon wit'iess goinp nut saw the ie.nain-.of a child lvin^ on the soil, which li.in been dup out. Some ei^ht days previous to this witness told Detective OBrien th.'t thtne were home very peculiar looking a-.hes in the Hre-pLice in the cottage, and Detective OBrien told him to see that they were not disturbed. Evidence was given as to the prisoner having given birth to a female child in August last, but Dr. Garland could not determine tho sex ot the murdered child from the remains, and could not my what weapon was user! to inflict the wounds. It might have been a sharp spade or tomahawk shown. Dr. Garland said the wounds might have been inflicted with either, but thought with the Hjiade. The inquest stands adjourned until Wednesday next.