CHILD'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 9

CHILD'S DEATH.

STRANGE FEATURES.

FATALITY ON FARM

SUSPENDED BY BONNET?

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

HASTINGS, this clay.

At an inquest concerning the death or a two-year-old child, Barbara Ann Wright, of Fernhill, apparently as the result of injuries received when she slipped from a rubbish heap' and was suspended for a short time by her bonnet, which became caught in a wire fence, the coroner, Mr. G. Ebbett, J.P., said that there were some singular features

in the case, but nothing that was in any way suspicious. The father, Frank William Wright, said ho last saw the child when ho left home at one o'clock on Monday of last week. About 2.15 p.m. a farm hand came over and told him to come homo at once. Witness returned to the house and found his wife and child missing. About half an .hour afterward, he a message from the Soldiers' Memorial Hospital saying that his child was there. He did not go to the hospital that evening and his wife returned home that afternoon. As the result of what his wife told him he went to see the child at the hospital the next day. Witness could not say what was the cause of his child's death. She had been in her usual good health. She had never had any illness apart from whooping cough, from which she was suffering slightly when he last saw her at home.

The mother was not in a fit state to be called and the inquest was therefore adjourned sine die.