MOTHER ADMITS CHILD WAS KILLED WHEN SHE DROPPED HIM
NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Recd 8 pm).— Mrs. Stella Komorek tonight admitted that her six weeks old baby, Stephen, was killed when she accidentally dropped him. She had concocted the kidnapping story to conceal the death from her husband. She was released by the coroner who ruled the death was accidental. Mrs. Komorek confessed she dropped the baby while feeding him and discovered he was dead when she picked him up. Then she went to the cellar and placed the body in a bag and threw it into a nearby creek. "I don’t know why I did it,” she said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1949, Page 5
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