FATAL BURNS
CHILD TAKES SULPHURIC ACID (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) • NEW PLYMOUTH, 18th April, j A child aged • twenty-one months, Martin Beesby, son of Mr. Arthur H, Reesby, of Inglewood, on Thursday wandered into a private garage next door to his home. His mother heard him screaming, and found him with his face, chest, and clothes terribly burned with sulphuric acid. Tho child died in the New Plymouth Hospital this morning. The garago was owned by Mr. Hislop, a herd-tester: Some sulphuric acid1, which was used by him in his work, was left in the garage.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1930, Page 8
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