CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 225, 20 September 1906, Page 5

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

j A WOMAN A_-___STHD. I CBy Telegraph.—Press ___o_a-ioii.) I W___L_NGT'3N. Wednesday. | At the ronrftision of an inquest held ! on the body of an infant to-day Mrs. j Mary Guy. in -whose custody the child had been placed, was arrested t-o-night | onji charge of mansiaugbter. The circnmstances of the case were , that the infant, the child of a single girL ha_ been given inx-o „lr.-. (Jut's care. £20 being paid by the mother. The. child died on Sunday last, nor, bavin.been seen by a medical man. It was 21 i months old. The surgeon who made the post-mor-tem examination said he found the body j thin and emaciated. It weighed hair ! what it should have done. There wa= hardly any fat _n the body. There was no sign of food in the stomach or intet Lines. The child had been given a lung balsam, prepared by a local chemist. This contained tincture of chloroionn and morphia and laudunnm. The immediate cause of death was distension or —__ sisozna.en. due rxy opi—m nar_lvsis, acting on diseased lungs. Neglect "was one ot the causes of death. The jtrry found that the child died of neglect and want of nourishment. i