INQUEST.
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 22. An inquest was opened to-day on the body of a newly-born infant found in a sack on St. Clair Beach on Tuesday, with a piece of lipen thread tied tightly round its neck. Dr. Evans said the body was fullv developed and well nourished. There was a circular pressure mark on the neck. He was of opinion that the child had lived, and that the cause of death was asphyxia. There was no water in the lungs, showing that it had not been drowned. There must have been some interference with the air supply. A constable said the bag had apparently been in the sea, but could not have been there long. It was found at high-water mark. The Coroner adjourned the inquiry sine die.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17773, 23 January 1920, Page 9
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132INQUEST. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17773, 23 January 1920, Page 9
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