TELEGRAMS.
(Per Press "Association.) GRUESOME CASE. Dunedin, June 14. Helen Glegg Avas remanded for a iveek at the Police Court to-day on a «' charge of using an instrument for the purposes of an illegal operation on a girl noAv in Dunedin Hospital. The girl found dead yesterday on the accused s premises has been identified as Olive May Pyle, daughter of a Puketeraki fisherman. TARATU MINERS RESUME. The Taratu coalminers, numbering nearly a hundred, resumed work today, after a fortnight's absence. * SUICIDE WHILE INSANE. Christchurch.- June 14. At the inquest on McLeod, the Coroner returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst temporarily insane. INFANT SUFFOFCATED. Rita Rebacca Thomas, aged four months, Avas found dead _in bed by its mother yesterday morning. At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict that the child had been accidentally suffocated through being oA*erlafn, and added a rider that the practice of mothers sleeping ivith infants ivas dangerous, and that a separate bassinet should be provided.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4015, 15 June 1920, Page 1
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