A SINGULAR CASE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3433, 31 December 1885, Page 2

A SINGULAR CASE.

(by telegraph.) Christchurch, December 30. At the adjourned inquest to-day on the body of t.ha Bamhnm SCD.OOI boy (John Hazlehurst), who was boarded out with Mr and Mrs Green, of Woodend, further medical evidence entirely exonerated the Greens from the imputation of illusage. Dr Ovenden had formerly stated as his opinion-that the boy had died from the effects of blows, and that his body was covered withubruises. A further examination of the body was made by .Drs Guthrie and Symes, appointed by the Government, and they concluded that the discoloration of the body was due to effusion of blood under the skin, an after result of the sunstroke, which Mrs Green said the boy had had. The skin itself was found to be not all injured. The boy had suffered from hereditary Byphillis,ahd this, in conjunction with the sunstroke, was, in the doctors' opinion, sufficient to account for the strange appearance of the body ; but they consider the case to be startling and unique. , Dr Ovenden said that, after further consideration, he saw reason to change his previous opinion, and he now thought that the diacolorations were not likely to be the result of bruises, but were probably caused as the other two medical men had concluded. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died from sunstroke, no blame being attached to the Greens in any way. J