JURY-FARMING DISCLOSURES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 288, 3 December 1892, Page 5

JURY-FARMING DISCLOSURES.

THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES,

Papers to hand by the Sydney mail conj tain long reports daily of the baby-farming I inquests. The police during tha last few days ; collected a lot of valuable evidence, which will be brought out in the inquest on tho j Oeorge Btreet bodies, and astronger case will | be made than has yet been presented to the I jury. Two of the bodies found in the yard it 109 George-street had very little clothing

;on them, but were wrapped together in : something that resembled a piece of a tablecloth. One of the bodies, however, which

was ono of the most recently buried, j was almost completely clothed, and these ' remains will form a very important piece of 1 evidence in the coming inquest. On this ; tody was found one of the suspicious : punctures on the left side, just below the [ armpit, which gave rise to the needle I theory of death, and the clothing on it has toen fully identified by a young woman 1 whom Senior-Constable Joyce has traced. I This woman gave her child, which was a I male, to the Makins on June 27th, j when they lived. in the- George-street j touse._ She paid them £5 for adopting I ft Since that time she has not seen I tor baby, for on June 29th the Makins I moved to Macdonaldtown. The youngWoman went to George-street some days a[ter, and found that the people bad left I ""to place. _ When the police discovered I™ 9 person's whereabouts she was shown j 'he clothing found on the body mentioned, I and she identified ib aa that which was on I «r child when she gave it to the Makins. j "Wordingto the medical evidence tho age of _9. IDi! aD6 and that of the botJy corresponds, I Md the sex is also similar. In addition to j "a., other evidence has been obtained, and I ™«c are aboub 18 witnesses to be called at I "-a inquest. ' <i\r „? roDer *n summing up at the end of I «o. 4 ' inquest said :If tho Makins had i °oc Ordered the child, why had they told 1 ™nii}~y lies about it? It was clear as I nwnday that they had been guilty 1 o talsehoods. If tho child had not been 1 i""w in the backyard, where had ;'l oeen buried? Why had the Makins | g»e under so many names, and changed 1 tw-aeesofabodoso often? It would be 1 vneir duty if they found that the child had 1 w Bta*; Ted to return a verdict of murder I two *b. hn and Sarah Makin* Aa t0 th. c I j. &""'"■" thero was no incriminating evith„Hk 8?8in!t them- Let them remember I only f Verdicb would not befinal'ib bein £ raw Lrt' iem to *"ay whether a prima facie thin l been made out* The state ot itate^f "ht t0 light disclosed a horrible g 0I affairs, and it was a matter which

concerned every right-thinking person in the community. He concluded by expressing a hope that justice would be done. When the jury returned the ioremain said : "We find that the infant No. 4 is identical wibh the infant of Minnie Davis and Horace Bothamley, and we find John Makin and Surah Makin guilty of manslauffhter. We find also that theie is not sufficient evidence to connect Blanche and Florence Makin with any guilty knowledge." John and Sarah Makin were then committed for trial."