DEATH OF AN INFANT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16610, 6 December 1919, Page 3

DEATH OF AN INFANT.

CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS TO FOLLOW. ASHBURTON, Dec. 5. The police received advice yesterday evening that the body of a newly-born male infant had been found at the residence of J. Bishop, at Tinwald, between the copper and the wall of a wash-house. The body was removed to the morgue, where a post mortem was held this morning. This afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. J. Cow, district coroner. Dr. T. Petty deposed that the child had been born alive, and death was due. to strangulation with a piece of tape, which he produced. Subsequently he " examined named Katherine Small, who admitted she was the mother of the child. The inquest was adjourned v fpr a week, the coroner intimating that criminal proceedings would follow. == jt = ————— ====