THE VICTORIAN INFANTICIDE CASE.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7357, 9 July 1889, Page 5

THE VICTORIAN INFANTICIDE CASE.

HOEEIBLE DISCOVERIES.

[from our correspondent.]

[Bt Telegraph from thb Blttff] MELBOURNE, July 2. Further important evidence has been brought to light in connection with the horrible case of child murder for which a farmer named McOarron and his eldest daughter, Jane, are under arrest in the country district of Karrimba, nearNathalia. It seems that Sergeant Sainsbury and Detective Williams have been for the paat fortnight actively engaged in searching the premises and land of McCarron in the hope of finding the remains of the children to whom it is alleged that the female prisoner had previously given birth. The efforts of the police were today rewarded by the finding, of the skeleton of a fully developed child, which was found buried about 3ft deep at the root of a stump in McCarron's paddock, not far from the outbuildings where the dead body of the child was found by the detectives on the 10th tilt. Upon digging round the stump the remains of a second infant were found, which, however, waa in a more decayed state. The skeleton first found appeared to have been buried about eighteen months, and it is almost intact. Both skeletons were enclosed in wheat bags, which were considerably decayed. The ground may have been ploughed and cropped once or twice siace the bodies were buried, and it is thought that one body has been four years in the ground. The inquest on the remains of the two infants has been held. Detectives Sainsbury and Williams gave evidence as to the finding of the remains. Dr. Drinkwater proved conclusively that one of the skeletons had been buried about two years, and the other about three or four years. The inquest was adjourned until the 12th July, for the purpose of receiving Professor Allen's opinion. The boxes containing the skeleton bodies and earth were last night taken to Melbourne by the police. The McOarrons will be brought up on Friday, July sth, on a charge of wilfully murdering the child previously found. It is expected that the enquiry will last two days at least.