A CHILD'S DEATH.
ATTRIBUTED TO RADISH SEEDS. • WELLINGTON. February 21. At ,tho adjourned inquest in regard to the death of Donothy Haseldean, nine years of age, Dv Maolaurin. Dominion Analyst, stated that radish seeds were found in the stomach, but no reference could be found to these seeds being' poisonous. However, tests made showed that radish seeds were poisonous, and they were probably the cause of the child's death. The Coroner eaid that without the analyst's report it would have been impossible to tell the cause of death. Ho returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence
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Otago Witness, Issue 3337, 27 February 1918, Page 53
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98A CHILD'S DEATH. Otago Witness, Issue 3337, 27 February 1918, Page 53
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