CHARGE OF INFANTICIDE.
[BY tELEGRAFH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] t ' * ' Xnveroargjxl, Thursday. Sarah Grkgor, 25, was to-day oommibted for trial on a charge of murdering her illegitimate child by throwing it into a creek near Fortrose, cm . July 18. From the evidence it) appeared thab her mother was not aware of the accused's condition, that she gave birth to 6 child in the garden and threw it behind a flax bush into the creek. She alleges that it showed no' signs of life, bub the medical I evidence was thab the chiM had lived. | When the girl's brothers founcl the body six weeks later the mother told them to bury it, in order to preserve ib as muoh as possible, and on the following day apprised the clergyman and a justice of the discovery, . not) having any suspicion that the;child was her, daughter's. Bail was allowed. r. ■ .(
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9610, 7 September 1894, Page 5
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