AN INFANT’S BODY FOUND.
[Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, April 19. A woman named Emily Rolfe, who is now on remand for concealment of birth, told the police that she threw her infant into tho tlio Puni Creek, a small stream running-through , the town. Search has been made there since Sunday, but the woman’s. ■ statement .-being doubted, the police at Riverton, where she had been living, searched that district, with the re-; suit'that’t6-day the remains of ‘an infant were found in a paddock about two miles from the township. Little but the skeleton remains, animals having eaten the flesh, and apparently scraped the soil over it. The woman Rolfe says that she gave birth to a child on April 1. Whether that found is hers will be bard to prove.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11558, 20 April 1898, Page 6
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129AN INFANT’S BODY FOUND. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11558, 20 April 1898, Page 6
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