INFANTICIDE.
Patea, March 29th.
Mary O'Sullivan, widow, whose husband was killed by a vehicle accident here 18 months' ago, was arrested last evening for infanticide. The body of a male child over a week old was found wrapped in an old towel under her house by some children. On their raising an alarm she removed it, telling them it was a little pig, and when the police arrived she was in the act of carrying it away in a kit. She remarked on being removed to the station that she supposed she would get two or three years. In the evening she appeared to fully realise her position, and hor grief was so great that she is now in a very low state. An inquest will be held this afternoon. Mrs O'Sullivan, who is only about 27, was considered a highly-respectable woman before the death of her husband, by whom she has four children, but since then she has led a loose life.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1584, 1 April 1882, Page 14
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163INFANTICIDE. Otago Witness, Issue 1584, 1 April 1882, Page 14
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