CHILD MURDERED
FINDING AT INQUEST
A finding that the deceased had been murdered by some person unknown was returned by the Coroner, Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., at an inquest at the Magistrate's Court today regarding the' death of a newly-born male child whose body was found on August 12 in a sack on the beach near Happy Valley. The finding of the body was described by.Constable James. Constable Brown stated that the place was a lonely part of the coast, the nearest houses in Happy Valley being about threequarters of a mile away. Dr. P. P. Lynch, pathologist at the Wellington Hospital, who made a post mortem examination of the child's body, described numerous injuries.
Mr. Barton asked if they could have been caused by the body being hit on the rocks by the incoming tide?
Dr. Lynch: I think not, your Worship,
Gould you exclude drowning as the cause of death? —Yes, I think drowning can bo excluded as the cause of death.
Detective \V. R. Murray said that he had conducted extensive inquiries, but up to the present had been unable to trace the parents of the child.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 3
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CHILD MURDERED
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 3
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