ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2499, 14 June 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

"l (H NI. W'OM \ \ s |)lv\TIL Liecti !c 1 elegranh—- Press Associat ton Dunedin, Last Night.. Late on Saturday night the police received intimation of tin' death of a voting woman, whose name has not yet been ascerf ained, at a house in Kensington. ‘This morning ihe police arrested ail elderly woman named Helen G'egg oecupier of the house " here th,- voting woman died, on the ehargo of having committed abortion on another young woman, who was found in tin' house. Christchurch, Tho Day, •John I ft'id McLeod, married, about <lO years of age, was found • lend yesterday at his Lome at Merita lo uith Ins throat. cut. lit' had been living with his wife and daughter up to a fortnight ago, when they left, owing 1o his drinking habits and the wife had instituted pro t'odings for a judicial separation. Rita. Rebecca Thontas. aged four ltutti(lts was found dead in he<l hv her mother ye s t erd a y morning At the ilK|Uesf, the CorotU’r certified that the child was aeciih’nf ally suffocated hv being overl.am. He added a paler that the practice of mothers sleeping with infants was dangerous and that, isopo nito bassinet be provided