CHILD FOUND DEAD IN BED.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1881, Page 2

CHILD FOUND DEAD IN BED.

" • ■ At 20 minutes past 4 o'clock this morning, Constable Lawrie was informed that a child belonging to Mr. Lawrence Gosling, a woolpresser, residing in Courtenay Place, had been discovered dead in bed a few minutes previously. Proceeding to the parents' Residence, the constable found a female infant ljing on the bed, quite dead. In answer to his enquiries, Mrs. Gosling stated that she went to bed at 11 o'clock last night, when the child, which was born on the 29th October hist, was in its usual state of health. She awoke at half-past 2 o'clock this morning, when she placed the infant at the back of the bed, and went to sleep again. At 4 o'clock she awoke once more, and discovered her offspring lying on its face, having evidently been accidentally smothered. The body was quite warm. Dr. Daker was sent for, and he pronounced life to be extinct. A coroner's inquest will be held at the Morgue to-morrow at 11 a.m. So woman was ever known to marry a man whose first remark on being introduced to her was about the weather.