TRAGEDY ON A FARM.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 21 September 1923, Page 6

TRAGEDY ON A FARM.

BABY MURDERED AT DROMORE. By ouraul. —Press Association. ASHBURTON, Thursday. A lonely farmstead a mile from Dromore, which is seven miles from Ashburton, was the scene of a shocking tragedy at 8 o’clock this morning, wheii a three-months’ old child was killed by a large nail driven into its head. The child’s uncle, Thomas Jamieson, who is understood to be afflicted both mentally and physically, has been arrested. Dotaiis gathered by tho police indicate that ” the mother, Ellen Jane Jamieson, left the child on the bed, while, she prepared its food. Returning in ten minutes, she saw the child bleeding and dying. Rushimi out, she found her brother George in a held, and the latter, on investigation discovered Thomas Jamieson ill bis own room cringing and whining. .He locked him in a loose box in Jl I "doctor arrived shortly before the infant died, and found that a four-inch nail had been driven into tho head behind tho ear. The- unfortunate child was also jabbed about the fac-e with a

The arrested man is painfully afflicted iwisted as if with rheumatism. He speaks with difficulty. He tv as locked up in a padded cell