INFANTICIDE.
An inquest was held at Wellington yesterday on the body of an infant found in a cask containing lime, water, salt, and cream of tartar, at the rear ..of Mawson's confectionery premises, concerning which a single woman named Marion Mary Emmons, alleged to be the mother "of the child, is charged with murder. The medical evidence was to the effect that the child was born alive, that the cause of ••teath was fracture of the skill I, the child was dead when placed in the barrel. >nd that the fracture of the skull must have been caused by violence. A verdict was returned that the child was born alive, neglected by its mother; and met its death by violence, but how the violence was applied there was no evidence to show.
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Evening Star, Issue 12927, 25 September 1906, Page 8
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132INFANTICIDE. Evening Star, Issue 12927, 25 September 1906, Page 8
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