NOT A BABY MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 10, 12 January 1934, Page 7

NOT A BABY MURDER.

NEW JERSEY POLICE CALL. NEWARK, January 6. A police sergeant was dozing comfortably in a Newark (New Jersey) police station, when the telephone rang. "Come at once," shrieked a voice. "I saw a baby buried alive at High and West Market Streets just now." Half the available police force rushed out of the station, and clambered into two cars. Three cars with journalists followed. The story looked "hot." At the- appointed place a negro stopped the cars. "A. big shiny car stops near me," he almost fell over himself to explain. "A man and a woman in swell clothes jret out . . . They walk over here . . . The man digs a hole . . . The ivoman takes a baby out of a suitcase . . . kisses it ... puts it in the hole . . . Then the man threw dirt on it." Dead silence reigned while a policeman dug at the indicated spot. Presently he stopped digging, and, stooping down, lifted something enshrouded in a linen wrapping. Reverently a policeman undid the wrapping, while all onlookers strained forward to see the child. Then they laughed long and loud. It I was a black kitten.