THE NEWLAND'S SENSATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3593, 23 January 1923, Page 44

THE NEWLAND'S SENSATION.

ACCUSED REMANDED. WELLINGTON, January 17. Daniel Michael Cooper and Martha Cooper were before the court to-day on charges of unlawfully detaining an infant, child, and the male accused was also charged with supplying a noxious thing, knowing tne same .was to be used for an illegal purpose, and were remanded till January 24. An application for bail for the female accused was strongly opposed by Mr Maoassey, for the Crown, as it might, he said, defeat, tile ends of justice. At various times four illegitimate children had been placed in the charge of the accused, and they had failed to give an account of three of them, arid had made contradictory statements concerning the fourth. Besides. the bo civ of a child had been found buried on the" premises recently occupied by the accused. Under these circumstances, if bail were granted, there might be very serious results Bail was refused. It is understood that Mr T. Wilford and Mr A. C. Hanlon have been retained to defend the accused.