CHILD’S DEATH
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Hast night. An inquest- was held at Lower Hutt this morning before Mr. J. H. Sainton, S.M., into the death of George Ernest Costigan; 5, who was'killed on Sunday last by part of an ice cliest hilling u P on him.- . The evidence showed that a heavy section of an ice chest, weighing nearly 3cwt., had been lying against a wail. The child was swinging oh a small door, and the section of the ice chest overbalanced. •: A verdict was returned in accordance with the evidence, that the bov died US the result .of a fracture at the base of the: skull through being accidentally caught under part' of an ice chest,, no blame being attributable to anybody.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 10
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124CHILD’S DEATH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 10
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