INQUEST ON AN INFANT
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. (By Telegranh—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Last Night. An inquest opened to-day on the body of a newly-born infant which was found in a sack on St. Clair Beach on Tuesday, with a piece of linen tied tightly round the neck. Dr. Evans said the. body was fully developed and well nourished. There was a circular pressure mark on the neck, and he was of the opinion that the child had lived and that the cause of death was asphyxia. There was no water in the lungs, showing it had not been drowned. A constable said the bag had apparently'been in tho sea, but that it could not have been there long. It was found at high water mark. The Coroner adjourned the inquiry sine die.
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Wairarapa Age, 23 January 1920, Page 5
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