ALLEGED CHILD MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 4

ALLEGED CHILD MURDER

[Per United Press Association.] . CPIRTSTOHUROH, February 19. The trial of Winifrea Carrick on a charge of murdering her son, Donald Lewis Carrick, aged three, was .continued in tho Supreme Court to-day. Martha Chillingworth gave evidence that the accused hired a room on December 7. but she did not occupy it that night. Isabella Patrick, employed in the Parcels Office in Cathedral square, said the accused left an umbrella- and. suit case at the office on December 7, returning the following day for her luggage. Thomas Henry Playford, a cabman.'who drove the children to Burnes's house from the receiving home, detailed a conversation with a, woman who was anxious to know where she took 'the children. Witness could not swear that the accused was the woman. Detective-sergeant Gibson gave evidence as to arresting the -accused, who denied knowing where the boy was, and declined to inform him where she had spent the previous night. This closed the evidence for the Crown, and the Court adjourned to enable the jurv to visit the scene of the murder, also the scene of the abandonment of the deceased when be was an infant, j Mr Alpers announced that he would call no evidence for the defence.