SUIT-CASE AS A TOMB.
Of Isabel King, a young domestic servant, of Bath, it was said, at Somerset Assizes, that for two years she had carried, the dead body of her illegitimate child In a wicker suit case. She was charged concealment of birth. Born in 1917, the dead body, i- was stated, was no; found until December, 1910. She had had several situations, and had served in the R.A.F. Presumably she had carried the body about from place to place, and a peculiar smell in her bedroom led her mistress to make a search. Born alive, the baby was fully developed, but its body was now too decomposed to permit the cause of its death to be ascertained. For her defence It w.as said she was made drunk by a soldier, and then betrayed by him. She concealed the body ro hide -ncr disgrace. A Minehead lady, having offered her a situation. Mr. Justice Shearman discharged her with a nominal sentence of tw 9 days' imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 73, 27 March 1920, Page 19
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