ALLEGED MURDER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13206, 9 February 1907, Page 5

ALLEGED MURDER.

SINGLE WOMAN ARRESTED. Per Press Aisociation. WELLINGTON, February .8. A single woman named Matilda, Morris ■was; aucsted at Otaki, charged with jnarderingher infant. Morris left thft: liou*e in which ahe ivw staying at' Otiiki on Janiuiiy 21»t, taking her .month-did baby witli Ijer. , She returned tlie same ilight, without the infant, and in reply to a question explained that the baby had been left with. people who woul3 adopt it. The matter .wajs reported, to the, police .and yesterday 'Detective Ciissells discoi-ered the dead .body; of the .infant buried in, the bush, and .t.We mother -yrm then arrested. ..Matilda Morris, was j brought cfown frdn ■Otafci. to-night, and. lodged in the' Terrace prison.. The magisterial 'hearing',of the case and the inquest on the remains of the ' infant, were formally adjourned, jrtjtil Friday and Monday of next week respectively. , , . . The accused woman is well known in the Otaki district. She had spent the 26 years of her .life there, and her father had been p, weil known .man. in the 'settlement. The .baby had been missing for a fortnight, and the mother had given no satisfactory account of what), had becomei, of it. At last she showed ,a detective a spot in the bush where the little body lay buried, the place of burial being concealed by dead leaves .. ,