KILLED BY FLY POISON

Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1946, Page 8

KILLED BY FLY POISON

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AUCKLAND, May 22. "This case is just a warning we can take. TTiese thing's scem to lie a menace to littie children," said the eoroner, Mr. A. Addison, when concluding an in- : quest iuto tlie death of Alan Lewis Ireland, aged two years, son of Mr. and M rs. F. G. Ireland, of Remuera, who died in (ireen Lane hospital on Apri] 0 after swallowing some liquid flv poison. The niother of the chihl said that on April 5 her son apparentiv went througn ihe fence into the home of Mrs. Bodford. When s.lie saw him with her 1 neighbour, he was very pale and when Mrs. Bedford said he had swallowed poison, witness put her linger down his t throat to make liini ill. >She adiuinisterj ed salt and water as an emotic and later i look him to hospital. .Mrs. Bedford said when slie was working in her kitclmn she lieard a child cough and knew it was Alan Ireland. She went into the sunporch and deceased was holding a sau-or contain , ing fiy poison. She asked him if he had ; swallowed any and when he replied that Ihe had, she took liiui; straight to his ; niotlier. A verdict was returned in accordance with tlie medical evidence that the child died of arsenieal poisoning following tlie ingestion of 11 v poison.