LAMP EXPLODES

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1927, Page 12

LAMP EXPLODES

BABY BURNT TO DEATH. (Per Press Association.) NELSON, June 24. Distressing circumstances were associated with an accident which terminated fatally to the one-year-old child of Mr Felix Edward Harman, of Mangarata, in the Murchison district. After bathing the child, its mother left him in his pen while she went to an adjoining room to fill his bottle and light a kerosene lamp. On returning, the child was still in its pen, and it commenced to come towards its its mother. In doing so, the child was pushing a chair, which struck Mrs Harman’s arm, knocking the lamp out of her hand. The lamp exploded, and Mrs Harman put a piece of blanket over it, and threw it outside. On returning, she found the baby’s nightdress was on fire. The flames were extinguished, but. then it was found that the child was badly burned. The child was brought into Nelson hospital, but it died on the steps of the institution. At the inquest the verdict was one of death by shock from burns. A rider was added that in the opinion of the Coroner, Mr E. J. Scantlebury, it was unwise for the child to have been removed from Murchison to Nelson. DROWNED IN BATH. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 24. While having a hot bath at their parents’ residence at Darlinghurst, two children, Daphne Heiringe, aged 10, and her brother Robert, aged two, were overcome by the fumes from a defective bath heater and were drowned in the bath.