WOMAN CHARGED
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. Jano Evelyn Craig, aged 33, married, was charged at the Police Court with murdering her son, aged three months, at Avondale on January 22.
Evidence was given that the accused was fpund lying face down at the edge of a creek wounded,, and the baby was found dead.
Tlio accused's mother said • her daughter had been happily married for ten, years. The deceased was born on November 12, and the accused had since been in ill health. Witness stayed with her, for a fortnight at Christmas, and noticed that she was depressed. Witness last saw her on January ID, when her manner was strange, and witness then arranged for' her mental condition tobe examined by a doctor at 2.30 p.m. on. January 22. The accused was unaware of that arrangement, but when witness went to her house at 11.30 a.m. she was missing.
■The Crown Prosecutor said that evidence as to the accused's mental state would be called in the Supreme Court.
Counsel for. the accused pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence.
The accused was committed for trial,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 12
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190WOMAN CHARGED Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 12
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