DEATH OF CHILD.
MAORI WOMAN FOUND GUILTY;
(PBMS ASSOOUTIO* TBtKOSAK.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, September ,11. ;
Arapera. Itaiora Hadfield, the wife of the Bev. Kahi Hadfield, of Waitarai was found guilty of manslaughter, at the Supreme 'Court to-day. She beat her foster child, a little sirl, with a broken tennis raoquet until, according to medical evidence, the body and limbs were a mass of bruises. . She then put the, child to bed, but it died shortly afterwards. ; •' ~
Accused said that the ehild had sworn obscenely at her, and she had then stripped* her clothes off. and it was the naked body that was beaten. The application of .the defence for a Maori jury was granted, and they found their countrywoman guilty, after two hours' deliberation. Sentence was deferred tllT Saturday."
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19413, 12 September 1928, Page 18
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