DEATH OF GIRL
May Have Had Poison (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 2. A three-year-old Chinese girl who was rushed to North Shore Hospital last evening from her Devonport home but died on the way, is thought to have drunk some toxic substance —possibly embrocation. Police are awaiting an analyst’s report on the substance. The dead girl was Christine Young, one of five children of Mr and Mrs Kam Young, Victoria street, Devonport. The child was found to be ill yesterday afternoon. A doctor was called in when her condition worsened, and she was rushed by ambulance to the hospital. She appeared to go into convulsions on the journey, and both the ambulance driver and her father applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation without success. Police began an investigation into the death when bruises and scald marks were found on the child’s body, but these have since been satisfactorily explained.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30406, 3 April 1964, Page 7
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