YOUNG WOMAN ARRESTED.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16564, 30 May 1914, Page 13

YOUNG WOMAN ARRESTED.

CHARGE OF CONCEALMENT OF, < BIRTH. ,

[Pek Press 'Association.] AUCKLAND, March* 29. At' an inquest on the body of a newly-born child, the. statement; made: to the police by the mother of the '• child, Mary Agnes Brown, was put in. ' ■ < She stated that Ehe was a single'--"'-*' woman, twenty-five years>o.f age. She' 7 -!;™ admitted that she gave birth to tlia ""'* child. It was dead, and "she put it a dress-basket. ' '

The Coroner found that-the death of, •the child resulted from hemorrhage or; exposure, owing. to "the absence of ! assistance." ' .- ■ V * Subsequently Mary yßrOwn was ar*.; rested, ohargjed with?/concealment of/ birth.,arid reniaqded;-: bail wlth- r onflt. gurety, r allowed. P ■'' . - T.vt ' Mtßi iii i iTtfi-faiiminwr tutrix mnnnnmt