THE SYDNEY BABY FARM HORRORS.
Every day now some new development of a horrifying character is brought to light by the police in connection with the Makin baby farming oase. After finishing .digging up the yard of the houße in Kettle street, at Bedfern, without making any further discovery, they commenced operations at a houße in Levey street, Chippendale, where the Makins resided for about two months a year ago, leaving in a very mysterious manner. Hundreds of people gathered in the street, lined the fences and crowded even the house tops to watch the police at work. After turning up a considerable portion of the yard the bodiea of two infants, lying near each other, were found wrapped up in some old clothing. They had been co long buried that practically only the bones remained. , The remainder of the yard was afterwards trenched, but without disclosing any further finds. The two bodies found bring the total up to fifteen unearthed so far. What is believed to be an important clue has turned up in connection with the occupancy of the Levey street house by the Makins. At the inquest on cne of the infants previously found a doctor stated that the body bore the mark of a small, but distinct, puncture just under the left nipple, but whether the puncture had been made before or after death 'he could not say. Then, also, in two cases the clothes in which children had been wrapped up bore traces of blood on the left side, in the region of the heart. This gave rise to the supposition that some small, sharp instrument might have been used to stab the infants with. It now appears that shortly after the Makins left the Levey Btreet house a neighbour's child discovered a piece of blood-3tained calico, in which were stuck five long and very sharp darning needles. These the child give to her mother, but nothing auspicious having occurred at the time the cloth and needleß were unfortunately mislaid. The police and medical records show that one method of getting rid of infants has been to pierce the spinal cord or heart with a needle. This clue will be followed up.
THE SYDNEY BABY FARM HORRORS.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 7427, 23 November 1892, Page 4
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