A TRAGIC DEATH
FARM, CHILD POISONED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CAMBBIDGE, This Day.
Under tragic circumstances the death occurred of .Betty Nina James, two-year-old daughter of Mr. B. H. James, farmer, French 'Pass road, Cambridge, last evening. While the parents were at the milking shed a quarter of a mile away two children found a tin of eyano gas used for poisoning rabbits. Hearing the children crying a domestic found the little girl gasping for breath, while the.little boy was throwing- dirt mixed with • the gas over the face oi the child. A doctor was immediately summoned, but life was then extinct.
■At an inquest the verdict was death by misadventure,'the child being accidentally poisoned; no blame attachable" to anyone.
The Coroner commented, on the necessity of keeping such deadly poison beyond tho range- of children.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1929, Page 11
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135A TRAGIC DEATH Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1929, Page 11
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