ST. CLAIR BEACH CASE
"THE CHILD HAD LIVED."
DUNEDIN Jan. 22
The inquest opened to-lay on the body of the newly-born infant fpu,n-i in a sack on St. Clair beach on Tuesday, with a piece of linen tied tightly round the neck.
Dr. Evans said that the body was fuljy developed and well nourished. There was a circular pressure mark on the neck, and he was of opinion that the child had lived, and the cause of death was asphyxiation, there was no water in the lungs, showing that it had npt been drowned. There must have been some interference with the air supply.
A constable said that the bag had apparently been in the sea, but it could not have been there long. It was found at high water mark.
The coroner adjourned the inquiry
sine die,
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1920, Page 5
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