THE BABY FARMING CASES.
VERDICT OF MURDER.
[BT TKLEGBAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Invkrcaroill, Tuesday. The inquest on tho infant Hornby concluded to-day, the verdict being wilful murder. The medical evidence was to the effect that death was caused by asphyxiation by mechanical means, there being nothing in the state of the organs to indicate death from natural causes. The inquest on the Christchurch child, Dorothy Carter, was also completed, the jury returning a verdict of wilful murder against Minnie Dean. Professor Black deposed that a quantity of opium had been recovered from the internal organs sufficient to cause death, and the medical evidence was to the effect that tho post-mortem conditions were consistent with death from opium poisoning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9838, 5 June 1895, Page 5
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