ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.
TWO PERSONS COMMITTED -.FOR TRIAL.
(Per Press Association.) WOODVILLE, June IS. The Magistrate’s Court was occupied tho whole of to-day hearing a charge of alleged murder of a newly-born baby against Alice Maud Shepherd, domestic servant, living at Mangatoro, near Dannevirke, and John Clino, roadman for Dannevirke County Council. It will be remembered that the body ot a newly-born baby.‘ was found in a bag in the Woodville town sewer early m the month. A string was tied tightly annul the neck of the child. Two doctors testified that the olnld had lived and had met its'death by strangulation Woodville witnesses identified the bag and the wrappings in which the body was found as having been pmchased by the male accused. Other witnesses stated that the two accused had stayed in Woodville together last month. Detective Butler testified to the arjsst_ of the accused, and a confession by the female accused to, the effect that she i ia d tied the string around the child s neck .His evidence was corroborated W Sergeant Cruickshank. The, accused reserved their defence, and were committed for trial at the Supreme Couit, Napier, next week.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2532, 19 June 1909, Page 5
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193ALLEGED INFANTICIDE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2532, 19 June 1909, Page 5
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