INFANTICIDE AT PATEA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 228, 29 March 1882, Page 3

INFANTICIDE AT PATEA.

r, .','■<-! „-PATLA,"TbisDH./. ' Ilniy O'Bulhvftn, widow, who-o l:u->-band" was Lillt-d by a' veLiclo acciilenl | . hire /eighteen -months ago, was am.bted ;,.Jfe*b evening fbt infanticide. The body oj's /female child, over a week old, was . /ound.wrapped in an old towel under her "bouse, by Borne children. 'Oh their alarm, she removed it, saying it was a liftle pif?, and/ when the police arrived - ihe was in the : a'it 6f Carrying it away in a -kit. A string was found tied tightly -round! the neckj 1 and she remarked, on being removed to the station, that she supposed sho would get two or three years. In the evening she appeared to fully realise her position, and her grief is so great now that she is in a very low , etate. Ari inquest willbe held this afternoon. • Mrs. O'Bullivan, who is only about twenty-seven, was 0 considered a highly respectable; woniafa pe'fqre .the "death of fier husband, oy whoni she has •fou» children, .but qiuce then has led a loose life. r