ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.
■ rm mm ajboouwo*. H Mastered*, January 30/ ■Che inquest on the body of a newlf--■rn infant found'io a boiler furnao# i McKeDzie'd furnace was roauaed.. rhe girl Kate Alexander, the alloged. pother, is still in the hospiial. M.r rownall, counsel »or aoeused, oomplained that the Rev. R. Wood, Preefryterian minister, had interviewed the* axsLiued girl at the hospital notwithstanding an objection by the matron, and the fact that accused was under police surveillance, and it is alleged that he endeavoured to extract an admission of gSilt from the girlminister abates that, he went to administer spiritual comfort at the revest of>be girl's mother. Anyqyry jpto this matter took place at the hos- * jltai, and Iwted fcJwje hours, batbtf no practical resalk At the inquest the jury retimed an opea »««» • magisterial inquiry wan * u °" til February 7th. The Thomas Murcott and Kate Alex»fli' er > were admitted to bail.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 26, 31 January 1902, Page 2
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149ALLEGED INFANTICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 26, 31 January 1902, Page 2
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