SINGULAR DEATH OF A CHILD.
[FBBSS ASSOCIATION THLEGKAM.)
INVEBCAEGILL, March 5. . - A. boy named Bartiett, four years old, died in a singular manner to-day. Hβ trac standing on a fence waving his handa 4$ a passing train, when lie was seen to fall, and on hie mother raising him up, she found the boy dead. The supposed cause Vas heart disease. Later. cAt the inquest on the child Dr. Young deposed, that as the result of a postmortem was that the organs were all perfectly healthy, and only cause he could assign for the sudden death was paralysis of the heart from fright. It is : supposed that he feftd slipped v from the top of the fence {tort. . ■..,.. ■:. , ■
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7804, 6 March 1891, Page 6
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SINGULAR DEATH OF A CHILD.
Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7804, 6 March 1891, Page 6
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