THE ADDINGTON MURDER

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 11

THE ADDINGTON MURDER

•TRIAL OF WINIFRED CARRICK,

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHUaCH, 18th Feb.' The trial of Winifred Carriek, aged 27, on a charge of having murdered her son, Donald Lewis Carrick;. aged three years, at Addington, on or about Bth December, 1917, was continued in the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Chapman. Mr. S. G. Raymond, K.C., prosecuted for. the Crown, and Mr. O. T. J. Alpers appeared for the accused. Dr. Chamtaloup, of.Dunedin, stated that a spade and a spanner sent to him for bacteriological examination had given a reaction.of human blood.

Dr.. Scott described the child's injuries, and said that from the depression, in the Soil under the hoy's head it must have been dealt a fairly heavy blow. ' Annie B. Cox, manager of the. Receiving Home, deposed to receiving the child as a foundling and accused's visit to the home; while Christina B. Uren, an attendant at the home, gave evidence as to having taken the child to Burns's and to accused loitering about the home and near the tram on the occasion. Other evidence was given as to accused, after much reluctance, consenting to a maintenance order, and tho previous finding of th.a child in a hollow willow tree at Dallington in February. 1915. ' Mrs. Burns and members of her family - deposed tp it b^ing usual to lejave the back door unlocked and the window of the boy's bedroom np. The case was adjourned till to-mor-row. .