LITTLE GIRL'S SAD FATE.
HEAD CAUGHT IN WINDOW. COMMENT BY THE CORONER. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Napier. Thursday. An inquest v?as held to-day concerning the death of the little girl, Dorothy Leyland Green, aged 5 5, who was found hanging yesterday afternoon with her head caught in a window of a house. The evidence disclosed that the child was apparently endeavouring to gain admittance to the house through a small window, -which could be fastened at varying heights by a bolt, and was not weighted. Presumably the child opened the window, but failed to bolt it properly, and when she had hor head" through it fell and pinned her there. Marks on the wall of the house indicated that the unfortunate little girl had made efforts to regain her foothold on the block by which she had got up to the window, but when her mother arrived home the child was dead, the result of strangulation and shock. The coroner remarked it was one of the saddest cases he had had to deal with. He added that the man who made the window made a shocking job of it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 13
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189LITTLE GIRL'S SAD FATE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 13
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