SUPPOSED ACCIDENTAL POISONING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12213, 7 March 1903, Page 5

SUPPOSED ACCIDENTAL POISONING.

DEATH OF ax infant. . Yesterday mprning, fit Victoria Avenue, • Eden Tgrrace, an infant named Robert Leslie Williams, 12 months old, gon of Robert John Williams, labourer, died rather suddenly, and 'under' circqflistahces W necessitated 'an inquest' being held 8? tpr.-tfe' cause of death. It seenSs that deceased and his twin ' brother, "Clarence John yFilhaihs; were, both' taken ill : seized with severe " vomiting "arid purging shortly after nine o'clock on ' Thursday "'©V Later on ylieir condition improved, £ud both §lep£ well during "the' ; night. About four o'clock on Friday morning -"the deceased became .1 restless, * and, getting gradually worse,' the parents sumriioned Ur. GircUer, who " arrived" shortly '' after b,?>p.g called, but too'late 5 to be of ''any assistance, as the child died just after'his arrival. The facts were placed before the district coroner (Mr. Greshamj,"'" who opened an inquest in the afternoon' at the den vme Hotel. Constable Hodgson represented the police. ' The'" father, in his evidence, i said that for some time the two children had been fed on condensed milk, and had enjoyed good health'right" up till Thursday : evening. Sliot'tly ' after - six o clock on that night they were ! given quantities of both tinned* and fresh cow's milk, and'had also had small''Pieces of cold apple tart, the latter'consisting "mainly 2? the pastry. After hearing" medical ! evidence, the coroner decided to adjourn ill's inquest to enable lan analysis made of i the contents' of the' stomach.° "The other child. Clarence ! John" Williams, lies in a precarious condition. '' ' ' ' " • '