A DOUBLE INQUEST.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16462, 4 March 1919, Page 8

A DOUBLE INQUEST.

MOTHER AND CHILD. A doublo inquest, which disclosed! some distressing features, was taken in the Magistrate's Court yesterday by Mr S. E. McCarthy, District Coroner'. The onqiiiry.was into the circumstances surrounding the death of tho' infant female illegitimate child of Ivy Trigance, and of Ivy Trigance herself, a. single woman of about 26 yearn of age,, -who resided at 256 Hereford street. Tho inquest on the infant was taken first. Chief Detective Mcllveney said thab oa February 23rd he,'with DetectiveSergeant Gibson, interviewed the deceased Ivy Trigance at tho Christchurch Hospital,' and took a statement from her. Afterwards, he and De-tsctivc-Sergeant Gibson went to the woman's residence, and after unsuccessfully digging in the yard went to her room, in the house and found the body of the child .in a chest of drawers. A cloth -was .tied round-the neck and another round the mouth. The Coroner found that the deceased -"•child, the illegitimate child of Ivy Trigance, died as the result of strangulation intentionally caused by the mother. The inquest on the mother. Ivy Trigance, who died in the hospital on Feb- • mary2Gth, was then held. The medical evidence showed that the cause of death was septicaemia, and'the Coroner returned a verdict to that effect, adding that the cause of the septicaemia'was neglect after the birth of the child.