INFANT'S REMAINS FOUND IN A GARDEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 23 September 1909, Page 3

INFANT'S REMAINS FOUND IN A GARDEN.

AN AUCKLAND CASE EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. AU.CKLAND,: Sepf ember 22Y '• ■ '. 'The inquiry into the circumstances oi ' the death of the male infant whose re--1 mains were found by Mr Jervis Wright, of Epsom, on September sth, buried in his garden, was continued -by Mi Gresham (coroner). JTerv»s Wright, .ironmonger';? assjst- ' antj living at Epsom,: said that Isabel t Sinclaire, who was alleged to be the I mother of the child, entered his employ [ about July 19 as companion to Mrs Wright. They noticed nothing peculiar about her condition . On August lith she complained of feeling unwell, and went away for a couple of days, but returned and worked till August 21. On ' August 22 witness and his wife went ■ into the girl's room, and, in consequence , of what they saw, he wrote to SinI claire asking for. an explanation. The : next Sunday, August fc9, the girl's un- : cle called on witness, and said he had • come in answer to the letter to settle for the damage done. Next day Mr Sinclaire paid £5 9s 6d, and witness gave him a receipt. There were no further developments till Sunday, September 5, when, while hoeing in the garden, witness discovered the body of an infant. He covered it with a board and some earth. Next day he went to see Miss Sinclaire's father, and told him of the discovery The father, who was much upset, said he knew there had been a baby. He did not know where Miss Sinclaire was. Witness said: "You go and find her, and tell. her to come and take the baby away." ._,,.,. , Detective Marsack : What did he say? — H* re~n.rked : "I though all this was fixed up." , „ . , , Referring to fhe payment that had been made?— Yes. ,',,.' , , What did you say?— l asked him what he meant, and he said, "Yon wrote to the girl, and have been paid for the damage." . , After that I think you received some advice?— After that I saw my solicitor, and he told me fo inform the police, otherwise I would be liable to impnsonmehi. Cross-examined by Mr Singer: Do I understand you to cay that you told the father Of the girl that the only condition you would agree to say nothing about the matter was that the girl should come that evening and take the body away,?-rThat is so. Did he say he thought the proposal was too inhuman?— He didn't say it was inhuman. He said it wasn't fair. Did nt not strike you as being inhuman? — I did not think of it one way or the other. The girl put it there, and I wanted her to take it away. And you would not agree to the father's proposal that somebody else should take it away?— i would not. Detective Cox stated that on the 13th inst. Detective Sweeney and he interviewed Isabel Sinclaire at Mount Albert, .and took down a statement which she made. ' Inthat statement the girl said she was 19 years of age, and lived at Qtahuhu. On August 11th she gave birth to a male child in her room. .It wis born dead. Next day she buried it ; in ths garden. On the 17th she saw from her window Mr Taylor, father-4n-law of Wright, dig up the body and bury it again. Then Wright found it. The medical evidence was to the effect that the child had breather and that there,, were wounds. on the body that .w—Prtto have been caused by a sharp pointed instrument. The jury was unanimously of opinion that the .child had lived, but was unable to determine ■ whether its death was caused through culpable neglect or ig- j norance.

Feebleness in old age is greatly overcome by Steams' Wine of Cod Live. Extract. It gives new life to old tis system. Coincidence could hardly go further than it did in the case of two women who are in receipt of old age pensions in Victoria. An arrangement of papers in alphabetical order for r the purposes of record and filing disclosed that there was ap^ parently one pensioner who, besides having been taken over from the State had been granted a new pen sion. The surname, which was not Smith or Brown, or any such common names were the same; the Christian names corresponded, and each was a widow, and a dairywoman in the sarnie street of an inland town. Thp ages were stated as 09 and 73 years, a discrepancy of which little notice is taken by the pensions officers, who find knowledge on this point often very hazy. Each had. six children, both had been *born in Ireland, and had come to Australia in the same year, and neither applicant coul' 1 write. Formal inquiries were madi through the local police in order thn' proper evidence of ths "obvious rt" plication" might be recorded; but the result of these inquiries has beer ' to show that tho two persons are ac tually separate individuals. The: are not related to each other. A hatter, named Charles He::r,. White, 68, of Coral-streot, Lambeti'i who hanged himself lv his kitchen was stated at the inquest to havi been out of T.*ork for 20 years. Tin silk hat trade, with which he wai- 1 connected, was declared to bo nov. practically dead for such as he. Th< Coroner: But surely he could have turned his attention to anotke; branch of the trade? White's son said he did not, and of late was ver) much depressed? A verdict of sui side whilst of unsound mind wat returned.