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Source Bendigo Advertiser
Surnames Balderstone
Webster
Places Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia
Year range 1865 - 1865

EAGLEHAWK POLICE COURT.
Monday, 25th September.
(Before Mr G. Webster, P.M, and the Mayor.)

NEGLECTED CHILDREN.-William, Mary Ann, Christian (sic), and Frederick Balderstone were brought before the Bench as destitute children. Their father and mother were committed to gaol to be tried for manslaughter, they having smothered an infant in bed, while in a state of drunkenness. Remanded for eight days.