The Napier Mystery

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7533, 6 May 1903, Page 2

The Napier Mystery

(Per Press Association.) ™ Napier, Tuesday. lha young woman. Elizabeth Young a domestic servant, who last night gave herself up to the police in connection jvith The bodies of the two infants found in the water off the Iron Pot on Faster fcmnday, was this afternoon charged witn concealment of birth. She .pleaded guilty, and was committed for trial.

ihe evidenc--- .-hotfpd that on Monday April (i-h, th« gu-!. v.ho wi,s then in service was engaged in washing, but late in the morning her mistress noticed the ciotnes were not hur.g on the line and questioned the girl, who stated she had the toothache very badly and was told to ne down. This .*.,.. did, and in the afternoon she km in ihe yard for a long time, which aroused suspicion on the part of the mistress, who asked her if she had been confined, to which she replied "ho," that was not what was the matter with her, and she went on with her work, which she performed right up to last Saturday, when she was questioned as to some of the garments found on the infants, and she then admitted she was the mother of the two infants tound in the water.

These sho stated were born on-Mon-day, (ith April, but not placed in the water until Good Friday, being hidden in tho meantime.

Hie young weman. who is 39 years of age, is the daughter of respectable parents, but lo=t her mother when she was a few months old.