WOMAN TOOK POISON
VERDICT AT HASTINGS INQUEST <PEESa ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) HASTINGS, May 28. An inquiry into the circumstances of the deaths of Mrs Hilda Kathleen McLeod and-her son. Lan Breac Stirling McLeod, aged two years and a half, whose bodies were found in the bathroom of their residence on Wednesday evening, was held at Hastings to-day. The verdict was that Mrs McLeod, while under very severe nervous distress, died from poisoning self-inflicted. The Coroner contended that there was insufficient evidence to prove how the child met his death, and accordingly returned a verdict that it was found drowned in the bath, there being insufficient evidence to show how it came to be there.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22105, 29 May 1937, Page 8
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