ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14545, 25 October 1917, Page 6

ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.

(United Pit ess Association.)

Dunedin, Oct. 24.

Mary Beatrice Maud Walker, . tlio young woman whose child was found | dead in a suit case on September 22nd,' appeared in the Police Court to-day j I charged with that at Lawrenco on the; ! date mentioned, she murdered her male. \ I child. Tho accused reserved her dt^-! fence, and was committed tor trial. j

The coroner (Mr J. R. Bartholomew, ] S.M.) resumed the inquest at Dunudin , on the body of a- male infant which was found in a suit-case deposited in a chemist's shop in Stuart street on September 22nd, and in connection with which a young woman named Mary Beatrice Maud Walker stands charged ■; with murder. Mary Walker was pre- i sent in charge of the police matron. After."'hearing; evidence, the coroner saidj ' he did not rnropose in these proceedings I. to make a""finding on the question of! criminal' responsibility. That matter; , would have to be decided in i another ' court. He, would find that; the ciiild! was born alive, and that death was duo ' Ito asphyxia.