AN AUCKLAND MURDER CHARGE
« A BABY'S DEATH. STATEMENT BY THE MOTHER. iBT XBWSGRAPn. — PRK3S ASSnCtATIOM.I AUCKLAND, This Day. At l-he inquest on the headless infant, Detective Denorville stnted that when he questioned Mrs. Farndale, tho, woman arrested on a murder charge, she stated the infant was in the Salvation Army Home. Ho , convoyed her there in i cab. On arrival she admitted that the child was not there, and added : "I took baby away at dusk on Tuesday ; went for' a blow up the harbour on a f err y-bop.f . The baby was restless, and I walked up and down, then set it on the side rail of the steamer which lurched and baby fell overboard." Sho added that sho was too scared to tell anyono on the steamer or at tho boardinghoiise, and expressed regret that she had told so many lies. She sobbed violently %\*hile making this statement.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 149, 20 December 1907, Page 8
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150AN AUCKLAND MURDER CHARGE Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 149, 20 December 1907, Page 8
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