AN INFANT'S DEATH.
[BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION'.]
Invercargill, Saturday. As the Police Court yesterday Bridget
: Duggan, a girl of 18, who had been arrest- " - ed in connection -with the finding of a baby's dead b<dy near Wrey's Bush, on \ Sunday last, pleaded guilty to concealment of birth, and vras committed for sentence. The police explained that the girl told her ;";;.... ftory very straightforwardly. The child was born in a shed, and had fallen, and when she lifted it life was extinct. Af- ;\ , terwards ehe - concealed the body. The ;"..*_ medical evidence was to the effect that the • fall described by the accused was consist- || tnt with the injuries found on the body, fe and the charge was therefore reduced to concealment of birth. At the Supreme |K/'Court to-day accused was sentenced to eix months' probation for that offence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13926, 7 December 1908, Page 5
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