SYDNEY HARBOUR TRAGEDY
CHARGES AGAINST MRS COHEN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 16. Mrs Cohen was found not guilty on a charge of murdering her child, aged 10 months. She was remanded on a second charge of murdering her other child, aged three years. The accused pleaded not guilty. She said that both deaths weiu due to accident. A cablegram from Sydney dated May 16 said: A naval petty-officer, attracted by the screams of a woman named Isabel Cohen, at the man-o’-war steps, found her and her two children Jean, aged three years, and Manuel, eight months, in the harbour. He jumped in and brought- them to the shore, where it was found that the boy was dead. The girl was removed to tho hospital, where she. died. The mother, who stated that her children fell in accidentally, was later arrested and charged with the murder of her baby.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 6
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