DEATH OF AN INFANT.
BODY FOUND IN WASH-HOUSE. [BY TELEGSiLPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ASHBURTON, Friday. The police received advice yesterday evening that the body of a newly-born male infant had been found at the residence of Mr. J. Bishop, at Tinwald, be- • tweenrthe copper and the wall of a washj house. J The body -was removed to the morgue, I where a post-mortem examination was j held this morning. j An inquest was held before Mr. J Go* j the. district coroner, this afternoon Dr. T. Petty deposed that the child had been born alive, and death was due to strangulation with a piece of tape, which Ihe produced. Subsequently he examined I a girl named Catherine Small, who ad- ■ nutted she was the mother of the child. I The inquest was adjourned for a week | the coroner intimating that criminal proj ceedmgs would follow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17336, 6 December 1919, Page 12
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