HORRIBLE AFFAIR IN BELFAST.
At the Belfast Police Court recently a labourer, 'named John Spence, and his wife, Elizabeth Spence, were charged with causing the death of their child, an infant under two years, in a most inhuman manner. At the inquest the evidence showed that the father, after beating the child in a dreadful manner, broke its arms, and then plunged it into boiling water. Corroborative medical testimony having been given, a verdict in accordance with the evidence was returned. The child was entered in a burial society.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2394, 12 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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89HORRIBLE AFFAIR IN BELFAST. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2394, 12 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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