CRIMES AND OFFENCES
INFANTICIDE. - Per Press Association. CB2IISTCHURCH, May 26. The dead body of a newly born male child was found by some boys yesterday on the bank of the Heathcote river. It was wrapped in a piece of blanket and placed in a sugar sack. The body had not been in the water, but had been in the sack for some time, as decomposition had set in. ■ There were no marks of violence on the body. At the inquest a medical man stated that the child had lived, and probably died from exposure. The inquest was adjourned. A DOUBLE MYSTERY. NAPIER, May 26. Heka Andrew, a returned soldier, was found in a lavatory of the Caledonian Hotel on Saturday night with a fractured skull and he died in hospital to-day. A maun named Piatt was found today in the Terminus Hotel with his throat; cut, and he is at the hospital in a serious condition. Eat Menace.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16820, 27 May 1919, Page 7
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