PUSH-CART TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16894, 16 November 1920, Page 7

PUSH-CART TRAGEDY.

STRANGLED BY PINAFOIIE

A push-cart tragedy it as investigated by the,Bethnal Green coroner at an inquest on a three-mouths’-old child named Sidney George Murray. The mother stated that the child was one of twins, and when she went out shopping, she left one of the children in a bedroom and another in a pushcart in a different, room. Both were asleep. Half an hour latex, she found the infant who had been left in tho push-cart hanging by the side of tlie vehicle with the strings of his pinafore round his neck and his feet two or three inches from tlie floor. Hu was dead. He prob-. ably awakened in her absence, and rolling about fell over the side of the cart. Tho pinafore strings caught a rail at the side and tightened round the child’s throat.

A doctor said that death was due to slow strangulation, and a verdict of death by misadventure was recorded.