INQUEST.
(PB3SSS association TEUsaaAM.)
DUNEDIN, April 25." Au inquest was held to-day touching the death of a child about five weeks old. ThO evidence of a woman who had charge of it was to the effect that she received the child on the 30th nit. from a woman who declined to give her name. She had seen the woman twice since. The police found that it was an illegitimate child named Mary Elizabeth Harney, and had been registered as born st Port Chalmers-by its-mother, Helen "Maloney, a native of Limerick, aged thirty years. Inquiries; at Port Chalmers had failed to discover a woman of that .name. The Coroner said the child had not hod fair play, and commented on the cruel conduct of the mother in not- taking it to a .doctor. The jury returned a verdict of "Deathfrom natural pauses."
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8156, 26 April 1892, Page 5
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