CHILD HANGED AT PLAY
FATAL WEIGHING TEST At an inquest at Thornton, near Liverpool, England, recently, it was slated that Ethel Edwards, aged nine, hanged herself while playing with a spring balance attached to a beam in an outhouse of a farm. Mrs Edwards said that the balance was for weighing potatoes, and the children were always weighing themselves. A police constable said he thought the child slipped on the floor while looking at the dial and her scarf caught in a hook. A doctor stated that death was instant, due to dislocation of the neck. A verdict of death by misadventure was returned.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6835, 16 April 1932, Page 5
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