SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 September 1908, Page 4

SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.

A BODY FOUND. I 'United Press Association.] i a CHRISTCIII'RCH. Sunday. The body of n male infant war 1 ..rind nn I hi' bn i!i of tlie Avon river at Bnrwoi.d yesterday. It appears that ' Hubert Dow nes was hunting hares, when hifi doe. which was near tbe bank of the river, bc'rin to bark, and on uoinc over he disu.vcred the body of a male child, lyinj* iace downwards, with a strimi round the neck. The body had been in the. water some time. At tho inn vest hold to-day Constable Roue , riritcd in r_-.*-ponse to a menace, he , visited the locality wlierp the body was j tound. The string was three or four . time? double round the neck, and at Ui 1 * end it appeared a* if a weight had , broken away.- Br Irvine, wlio mad- 1 j the Dost mortem examination, could not ray definitely if the child had ever lived. The body was fully dcveloned, ■ and wns nc wlv-born. but it was in a. very decompose.-) state, and some part.* | were mir c in_r. The Mrine was not tiprht round the neck, thoueh it hnd ent deeply into tbe flesh. The chid bnd , b~.ii tlend ii"-, lone; to «ny whether tlie r plri(>rr (md b'eu nut there <luri>i2 life. ' 'l'he rhr'd had to" pronely lv.ni. A veidrrt was return i- that the brdv was ' found on the bar.!,- n f the river, bn' tbeve wns no evidence to show how it ' trot there. ]