DUMMY BABY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12769, 27 January 1936, Page 2

DUMMY BABY

INQUEST ON CHILD. JUMPED OUT OF THE MAID’S ARMS. LONDON, Doc. IS. With a dummy baby, a Cambridge detective illustrated, at the inquest on the infant son of Mr Terence R. 13'. Sanders, a Fellow and the bursar of Corpus Ohristi College, how he thought the child fell from a window to its death. The child, Rupert Desmond .McDonald Sanders, Was found in the garden at the back of his parents’ bouse at Scroope terrace, Cambridge, recently. The mother, giving evidence, declared she heard a scream—the most piercing scream she had ever heard—and found the, child’s nursemaid. Beryl Tomlin, in a state of hysteria. Miss Tomlin said that a man bad bit her, and at first she (the mother) thought the child had been kidnapped. Mrs Sanders expressed the conviction that the girl was not to blame and that the child, who was extremely strong, jumped out of her arms,. In her opinion it was a pure accident.

A detective stated that later the girl said she was Standing at the window, trying to tell a boy friend who was outside that she could not come out, when the baby wriggled and fell out .of her arias. “I did not intend to kill him,’* she added. ‘’l love him too much. I did not throw him out. “ The coroner said that he was inclined to believe the girl's last story that the baby Md .sprung out of her arms and, as a.result she was thoroughly frightened and had invented that, tale,about the attack by a man.

The jury returned fi verdict of accidental death, through injuries caused by the child having fallen out of the window-from-the -nurse’s arms.