CRIMINAL CASES.
CHRISTCHURCH, November 19. In tho Supreme Court to-day, Lilian Fanny Hobbs was charged with disusing of the body of her dead infant, with intent to conceal the fact that she had been delivered'of the child. She pleaded not guilty. Accused was employed in a restaurant, and during tnat time one of the other girls noticed that she was pregnant. The body of the child was found in a lavatory after accused had been supposed to have been suffering from an attack of cholera. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Rowland Wilfred Longdown was acquitted on a charge of making a false statement to the Registrar of Marriages concerning the age of his wife. James Mclntyre was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for burglary, and Frank Taylor to eighteen months.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6371, 20 November 1907, Page 5
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