TRAGEDY OF A CHILD

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF A CHILD

AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH I ; : KEEP WOOL FROST LIGHTED CANDLES i (Per Press Association). Rawer a, Sept. 7. A verdict of* accidental death was returned at fife inquest on the death of Maurice Trilford, the live year old son of Mr and Mrs W* G. Trilford of Ohangai who died’ in the hospital on August 31 as the result of injuries suffered the previous evening when the fancy dress costume the- child was wearing caught, fire. The child ’was to attend a children’s fancy dress ball apd was being dressed in a woollen costume to resemble a snowball when Ire came into contact with the flame of a candle. The mother and fnfhior wero burned on t.ho hands while endeavouring ito extinguish ffhe flames* the father eventually plunging the child into a hath: of water. j