INFANT STRANGLED
TWINS’ FATAL PLAY IN COT [Peb United Press Association.] HAMILTON, February 9. ' The infant twin daughter of Mr ana Mrs Thomas Scott, of Waitoa, met beg death last evening hi an unusual manner. The twins, girls aged St months, were playing together in their cot, an iron-framed one. At about 6.30 the mother left them for a short time, having household duties to attend to in an adjoining room. When she returned she found that one of them had wriggled its body between the frame and the mattress, and was hanging by the neck. Life was extinct, and the doctor called pronounced death due to strangulation.
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Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 9
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108INFANT STRANGLED Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 9
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