CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17707, 8 March 1923, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

INQUEST. An inquest conoeniine «,> 1 an infant, which b»»iL3W was held before the CotoSli WrfdoTwon, yesterday ffi*Q Senior-Detective T. GiHI the proceedings. ,v,lllWl «lC William John JVsher m jjl residing -at 30 Cresswdl JS*f ley, said that at about 7 JJS day, he was walking «M with-his wife. Tha? 1M * | .fl on the ground and witae*, jjg side ana! saw that it conS bones, He had noticed ,tHI conspicuous place m th» J?? about six months. At one Q smel had seemed to com, &5 tin hod always seemed to Uil\ ■me time the portion of thojrfJ the tin was found had beK with pine trees, but t% J burnt down. fa* «"!?,{ Maud Jane Fisher, wifcof W mis witness, gave eombotitjfi dence. V . Constable John Mcleod uftfe, where the tin was found ttijqJ trom Cresswell avenue ud &S yards from the Old Bnditoa reserve was frequented by nnk' , Dr. T L. Crooke, wlu>»S| bones of the child, sajd be wrf opinion that the remains had la the tin for considerably W | six months. The skull was ft* and the body had .been doubled» put it 'through the narrow w the tin. The fracture ws&% suited from the doubling.upujj forced into the vessel. Thron evidence of limbs, but they nigh! been part of a mass that tru i against the side of the tin. -Itn possible to ascertain the sei or i| the child. The Coroner travew3-tl» mi evidence, and said tha' the'! could not say uhethei the babj born alive, or ihether it ma i time child. The verdict, would be the bones of a child were that there was no evidence to £B how, when, where, or by wotting it met its death. - • | m