CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16699, 6 December 1919, Page 3

CASUALTIES.

' NEWLY-BORN INT ANT'S DEATH. An inquest was held at tho Ashburton Hospital yesterday aftenioou, bolore .Mr Jaaiej Cow, district Coroner, reg:irdiiis the death ot a newlv-born ltiul-j child, whose bedy had been found in a house at l'inuald, betwoen the copper und the wall of tho washhouse. l)r. T. Pettey gave evidence of having been called to the house of James Bishop, at Tinwald, on Thursday afternoon, and his attention was. called to tho body of a newly-born infant. Tho chil l had been found that afternoon by the side of a copper in tho washhouse. The body was covered with a blouse. 110 made an examination, and estimated that death had taken place from twelve to twenty-four hours previously. Ho then instructed Bishop to inform tho police. He made a post mortem examination of tho body after it ha l l>cen i removed to the hospital. He found j the body that of a full-timo male child, | whi~h had been born alive, and had subsequently died oi asphyxia. There was a lined mark right round the neck below its middle, and another similar mark at the base of the uck on the right side. Ts:<> latter mcrk had been caused by a pioc.* of tppe iwd fcr fastening t':e b'ousc to the child. The t:ipe produced corresponded with the mark round the nek of the child. Tho mark on the middle of the ne: k showed that sufiicient pressure had been used to cause strangulation. While at Tinwald witness bad examined a £'rl, and found that she had recent'y fiiven b'lih to a child, and she admitted being the mother of the child found in tho washhouse. The inotiest was then adjourned, tho I Coroner intimnti"<r that criminal proceedings would follow. R. Rogers, a returned wildior, residing at Belfast, met with en unforunate accident 'ay. Wl'il" vs'np an nxe it either slipped or he missed h's rrm on it. e.nd it strucV his right foot, r.lmost siverintr it. He was brought into tho Hospital for treatment. (PRB"'' ASOOrTATTOV TFTEOTIAM "WELLINGTON, December 5. Charles Jenkins, a. patient at tiio Porirua Mental Hospital, threw himself in front of a train at the Porirua station and was killed instantly. Ho waa regarded as only slightly affected ) and, being a voluntary patient, was allowed more latitudo than others.