A Serious Charge.
- • •■ — ( ALLEGED CHILD-MURDER. , (.UNITED PB'BSS ASSOCIATION.) Haweea, August 27. Josephine Gieeo was yesterday brought; up on. remand charged witQ child murder. 'J'he Rev Mr' Williams" Wesleyan 'Minister, to whom. the girl ! said she,, had given the child, deposed that he had only spoken , to .prisoner once, and knew nothing of the child. A.^ baby's dress I land flannels, much soiled, were found m a hedge down m a gully near here. -Mrs Hughes, midr wife, swore she made the dress and flannels, and thai; the child was wearing tbem when the mother took it awari / The theory of the defence ia that the child was given to George I Williams, a married man, father of the chiid, who is now supposed to be living at the Forty-mile Bush. Every effort 13 to be made by the police to discover him, and a special policeman is to be sent to trace him. ■ ■• \
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 230, 31 August 1883, Page 2
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153A Serious Charge. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 230, 31 August 1883, Page 2
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