CHILD’S DEATH BY BURNS
FANCY-DRESS ON FIRE VERDICT AT INQUEST Press Association HAWERA. Today. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest yesterday on the death of Maurice George Trilford, aged five, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Trilford, of Ohangai, who died in hospital on August 31, as the result of burns received on the previous evening, when a fancy-dress costume the child was wearing caught fire. The child was to attend a children’s fancy dress ball and was being dressed in a woollen costume to resemble a snowball, when part of his dress was set alight by a candle. Both his mother and father were burned on their hands in trying to extinguish the flames, the father eventually plunging the child into a bath of water.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 9
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132CHILD’S DEATH BY BURNS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 9
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