BOY SEVERELY WOUNDED
A MOTHER’S CONFESSIONBY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. Thames, November 24. Early this morning a doctor summoned to the house of T. Bennett found a boy nine years of age lying on a bed with severe wounds in the scalp and his skull fractured. The mother, who has been in failing health for some years, stated that someone was going to take the child and ill-use him, so she determined to kill him and end his suffering straight away. . The child was removed to the hospital in a serious condition, and the woman was taken to the detention ward of the hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 53, 25 November 1922, Page 4
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102BOY SEVERELY WOUNDED Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 53, 25 November 1922, Page 4
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