TRAGIC STORY
OF DEMENTED MOTHER’S ACTION KILLS OWN CHILD. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 24. Seven weeks ago Christchurch was horrified to read of the tragic death at Sumner of a child only a few weeks old, the circumstances being that it was caused by the act of a temporarily demented mother. The woman was found in the sea off the Esplanade in a state of collapse. The tragic story was told at the inquest to-day, when a 14-year-old boy described the mother’s action. The medical evidence showed that the child had been cut about the neck, and that the woman had shown every indication of puerperal mania, which sometimes followed confinement. A verdict was returned that the child died from a wound inflicted by the mother while temporarily insane.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 201, 26 July 1926, Page 11
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130TRAGIC STORY Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 201, 26 July 1926, Page 11
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