A CHILD'S DEATH
POISONED BY SEEDS. (By Telegraph.—'Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this a"ay. At the adjourned inquest on the body of Dorothy Haselden, aged nine years. Dr. MeLarin, Dominion Analyst, stated that radish seeds ivere found in the stomach. No reference could be found to these seeds being poisonous, but tests made showed they were poisonous, and they probably caused the child's death. The Coroner said that without the analyst's report it would have been impossible to tell the cause of death. He returned a verdict in accordance 'with the medical evidence.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 6
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