A SERIOUS CHARGE.
[Per Press Association.] NAPIER, August 19.
A single woman, named Elizabeth Smidfc, aged twenty-seven, in service at Hastings, gave birth to a child on Saturday. The infant was subsequently found smothered in the mother’s bed. The mother admits that the child was alive when born. A charge of murdering her infant is to be preferred against the woman.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12584, 20 August 1901, Page 5
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61A SERIOUS CHARGE. Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12584, 20 August 1901, Page 5
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