THE SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE AT OAMARU.
(united press association.) Oamaru, October 27,
The inquiry into the circumstances attending the finding of the mutilated body of a child in a garden at the north town boundary was resumed to-day. The evidence went to show that the woman who has been arrested on a charge of murdering the child admitted to a friend that she had done it, but on another occasion she denied having committed the crime. When arrested at Clinton she denied that she had ever been in Oamaru, and said she had only been three months in the Colony. It will be remembered that she told the Oamaru police that the child had been taken away by a woman named Scott residing at the East Taieri. Inquiries were made by the police, and it was ascertained that no such person lived at East Taieri. Mrs Sargiuson, which is the name of the woman arrested, told one of the witnesses that the child was choked with milk. The enquiry was adjourned till Monday next.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 765, 29 October 1886, Page 24
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173THE SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE AT OAMARU. New Zealand Mail, Issue 765, 29 October 1886, Page 24
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