INQUEST
(Per United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, January 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 linen tied tightly round its neck.
Dr. Evans said the body was fully developed and well nourished. There was a cricular 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 bad 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 Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16030, 22 January 1920, Page 5
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132INQUEST Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16030, 22 January 1920, Page 5
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