CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH
WAIMATE COUPLE’S ADMISSION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waimate, July 16. Pleading guilty to charges of concealment of 'birth, Lomond Kennedy and Juanita Winifred Wilce were committed for sentence in the Supreme Court. They appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M. The medical and police evidence was on the lines of that at the inquest, held last Friday. . Kennedy did not give evidence, but Wilce was put in the box by her solicitor and stated that Kennedy threatened to kill her if she told anyone about being pregnant. After the birth he extracted money from her; he also knock’ ed her about and kicked her.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1929, Page 12
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