ALLEGED MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 21634, 1 February 1934, Page 12

ALLEGED MURDER

CHARGE AGAINST MOTHER INFANT FOUND DEAD IN GREEK {Pen United c’hesj Association.] AUCKLAND. February 1. Jane Evelyn Craig, aged thirtythree, married, was charged in the Police Court this morning with murdering her son, aged three months, at Avondale on January 22. Efidence was given that the accused was found lying face down at the edge of a creek with a knife wound in her neck', and the baby floating in the creed dead. A bread knife was found in a pram nearby The accused’s mother said that 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 her melancholic, then normal, then depressed. Witness last saw her on January 19, when her manner was strange, and witness then arranged for her mental condition to be 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 wns 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 formally pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence. Mrs Craig was committed for trial.