THE NAPIER SENSATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 21

THE NAPIER SENSATION.

A SAD CASE. NAPIER, May-ST. The young woman Elizabath Young, a domestic servant, who last night gave herself up to the police in connection with the bodies of the two infants found in the water of the Iron Pot on Easter Sunday, was this afternoon charged with concealment of birth. She pleaded " Guilty," and was committed for trial. The evidence showed that on Monday, April 6, the girl, who was then in eervice, was engaged) in washing, but Late in the morning nei" mistress noticed t/.ie clothes were not hung on the line, and questioned the girl, who stated that ik& was suffering from toothache very badly. She was advised to lie down.: This she tlid, and in the afternoon was in the yard for a long time, which aroused some suspicion on the part of the mistress, who asked h«r if she had been confined, to which she replied " No." i.hat that was not what was the matter with her, and ehe went on with her work, which she performed right up to last Saturday, when she was questioned as to somo of the garments found on the infaaits, and she then admitted that she was the moth-er of the two infants found in the water. These, she stated, were born on Monday, 6th April, but not placed in the water until Good Friday, being hidden irt the meantime. The young woman, who 13 19 years of age, w the daughter of respeotable parents,, but lost her mother when she was ft few months old.

There seems to be quite an exodus of Country residents for the Old Country. Country exchanges notify the departure of Mr and Mrs Samuel White, of Mountjoy, Wiikaka Valley, and Miss White; Mr and Mrs Samuel Henry, of Bellamy Station ; Ur and Mrs Alfred Lay, of Tapanui.

The Tuapeka Times states that Mr R. Allen, who has occupied the po-ition of telegraphist at Lawrence during the. pa«t two years, has received notice of his transfer to the Dunedin office; and Mr R. Mitchell, letter-carrier, has been promoted to the | position of telegraph cadet.