FOUR INQUESTS
HELD IN ONE DAY. FATALITIES AT OPOTIKI. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) OPOTIKI, Wednesday. Mr F. J. Short, district Coroner, constituted a record as far as Opoliki was concerned this morning by conducting four inquests. The first was*on a male Maori child, still-born. The verdict was in accordance with the'medical evidence, that death was caused by the child's chest being crushed. The Coroner was of opinion that il the mother, Arahue Taupe, had received proper treatment the life of the child would have been saved. The second inquest was on Albert Geo. Butterworth, who came by his death through colliding with a service car on March 11. The verdict was that deceased died of a fracture of the skull, no blame being attached to any- ' one. The other inquests were on victims of a motor fatality on Sunday, Frederick Cracknell and his wife, Mary Ann Cracknell. The verdict was that it was a purely accidental disaster, caused by the inexperience of the driver, who was killed instantaneously by a fracture of the skull. Mrs Cracknell died from a fracture of the skull and shock.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17985, 2 April 1930, Page 6
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184FOUR INQUESTS Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17985, 2 April 1930, Page 6
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