YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH
THE NAPIER FATALITY STRANGLED WHEN WINDOW FELL ON THROAT [ Per Press Association. ] NAPIER, Dec. 1. At the inquest to-day concerning the. death of the little girl Dorothy Leyland Green, the evidence disclosed that deceased apparently was endeavouring to gain admittance to the house through a small window which was fastened at varying heights by a bolt slipping into a hole, and was not weighted. Presumably the child opened the window but failed to bolt it properly, and when she had her head through, it fell and pinned her there. The marks of the toes of her shoes on the wall of the house indicated that the unfortunate girl had made efforts to regain her foothold on the block by which she had got up to the window, but [when her mother arrived home the child ’was dead as the result of strangulation and shock. The coroner remarked that it was one of the saddest cases he had had to deal with, and added that the man who made the window made a shocking job of it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20013, 2 December 1927, Page 8
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179YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20013, 2 December 1927, Page 8
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