DEATH OF CHILD FORSTER
LIVERMORE TO STAND TRIAL. alleged confession produced. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, June 9. The preliminary hearing of evidence in the charge against Horace Frank Livermore of murdering Vera Margaret Forster, aged 4A years, at Upper Hutt on April 15, was concluded this morning and Livermore was committed .for trial. In the course of evidence Detective McLennan produced r. statement allegedly made by accused to him on the night the body was found. According to this statement Livermore was interfering with the child with his hand. He hit the child on the head with an iron bar seven times, picked her up and dropped her down the bank. He did not wait to see if she was dead. His reason for hitting her so was to prevent her telling he had been interfering with her. He said he did it on the spur of the moment to keep her quiet.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1932, Page 7
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