ALLEGED MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 7

ALLEGED MURDER.

DISAPPEARANCE OF BABY. CHARGE AGAINST DALMATIAN. AUCKLAND, Saturday. The murder trial of Paul Lendich, a Dalmatian gumdigger from near Kaitaia, was continued in the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr Justice Herdman. Accused was charged with murdering the female infant of Rosie Te Whiu on August 23 last. It was alleged he had taken the child away shortly after its birth, and no trace of it had since been found. ' Accused, in evidence, said lie had been keeping company with Rosie Te Whiu since about July of last year. He wanted Lo marry her, hut her mother would not agree. lie detailed the happenings at his whare on August 23, and denied all the girl’s statements about a baby having been horn, lie wanted a baby, tie visited Rosie when she stayed a week with her mother after August 23, and she made no complaint. lie was not angry when he heard a doctor had been called for Rosie, hut he thought he should have been given the opportunity to send for the doctor. The girl said she wanted to go hack to live with him, and went back of her own accord on September 9. Her mother wen.t next day looking wild and there was trouble between them. Rosie took her momer home, saying she would come hack, but siie did not come hack. On September 13 Constable O'Gorman arrested him on a charge of assaulting .Delia Te Whiu. lie had never ihrealened to luil Milii if she did not stop talking about the baby.