CHARGE OF MURDER.
SYDNEY, March 30. A shocking case of child murder is being investigated in the Criminal Court. ,A wharf labourer named Brady is accused of being the murderer of an infant six months old*.' The mother of the child, testified that Brady gave it laudanum, but as the first doee did not act he gav# it another, acid finally strangled it -with a bit of brass •wire. Brady told her subsequently that he had removed the bladder so that the body would not float, and had then dropped the body into the harbour. ■ March 31.
The charge of murder arising out of the death of an infant six months old was continued to-day. Brady, the accused, denied that he had killed the child, and said the woman Mitchell, with whom he lived, said she had sent it to Queensland. So suggested that the woman had charged him with the murder because he bad left her.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2925, 6 April 1910, Page 25
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