ALLEGED MURDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 March 1923, Page II

ALLEGED MURDER.

I THE NEWLANDS TRIAL CON- . TINUED. A - - ' (BT TELKGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, March 10. The charges against Cooper were continued. Beatrice Irene Beadle, housemaid, said/that she met Cooper at Dunedin about four years ago. Later she went to live at Cooper's, place at Island Bay, and with the knowledge of Mrs Cooper ; was familiar with him, Mrs Cooper say- : ing she had no objection. Witness had ' a child in Lyttelton in 1920. The child was left in Christchurch, Cooper saying that he would pay for it. The child ' was later brought back to Wellington.) and then Cooper said that he had made j arrangements for someone to adopt it..: "Witness said that she went away for 1 an hour, and on her return was told - that the people had.called and that j she was not to worry, it was quite all ' right, and the best thing had been done • in the circumstances. Since then she i had not seen the baby. i