SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINAL SITTINGS.

Wednesday, 3rd October.
(Before his Honor Mr. Justice Richmond.)

THE CHILD MURDER CASE.

After we went to press yesterday afternoon the case against Mrs. Mary Ann Trueman for the murder of her daughter's newly born child was continued.

Additional evidence having been taken for the defence.

Mr. Travers made an eloquent appeal to the Bench on behalf of the prisoner, and contended that the charge alleged against her could not be sustained — not even a charge of manslaughter.

His Honor summed up, and the jury retired, but they were afterwards recalled, when his Honor further explained the case to them, and at twenty minutes past six o'clock they returned into Court with a verdict of "not guilty," and the prisoner was discharged.

THE DAUGHTER'S SENTENCE.

Mrs. Mary Leonard Mudgway, the daughter of Mrs. Trueman, and mother of the child, who had previously been found guilty of the concealment of its birth, was then brought up for sentence.

Mr. Travers said he had nothing further to say in the case.

His Honor, in passing sentence, addressed the prisoner as follows: — "I do not want to say anything to aggravate or increase the misery of your present situation, but I see nothing whatever in your case to induce me to do otherwise than award to you to the fullest extent the punishment for the offence of which you have been found guilty. The judgment of the Court is that you be imprisoned for two years, with hard labor.

The prisoner was then removed, and the Court adjourned.

Source: The Evening Post (Wellington), 4 October 1877, Page 2.