CHILD MURDER CHARGE.
INITIAL HEARING ENDED.
NO RECORDS OF ADOPTION.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
[BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday.
The preliminary hearing of the charge against Daniel Richard Cooper and his wife,' Martha Elizbeth Cooper, of murdering the female child of Margaret May McLeod and William James Welsh, at Newlands, Johnsonvillc, on October 20, 1922, was concluded before Mr. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Both' Cooper and his wife were committed to the Supreme Court for trial on the murder and unlawful detention charges. Called by the Crown Prosecutor, Frederick William Hart, clerk of the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, gave evidence that no records could be found of the adoption of the children in question, or of applications having been lodged for their adoption. This concluded the evidence for the Crown on the murder charge, and the accused, who had nothing to say .vftien cautioned, were committed to the .Supreme Court for trial. In accordance with the procedure in the hearing of murder charges, accused were not given an opportunity of pleading.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18348, 14 March 1923, Page 11
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173CHILD MURDER CHARGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18348, 14 March 1923, Page 11
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