DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 1 April 1912, Page 6

DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION

O)y TelccraDh-Prosa Association.) '. Auckland, March 29. DcaJi from .suffocation ' was the fate ihiiit overtook-Uronda Muriel Bow, nino years old, at the residence of her parents in Ponsonby, this afternoon. At about 3.30 p.m. the child's mother left home for a tew minutes to visit a sick friend, and' the little girl who was a semi-invalid, remained at home playing, with her.five-year-old brother and two of his-pla/mates. An e'dcr In-other of the Bow children on returning from school, noticed smoke in tho hyn.su as ho opened the- back door, ilo immediately went for his mother. It wus then discovered that a kapok ■mat-: urn? sl, !°. ultl l e ' ,i »ff i" tho room where the little girl slept. Mr.s.-Bow entered the room, which was full of smoke,' and Joiind the child on., tho. bed , unconscious .Roe- smoking mattress was on the table ' and she left it there'.'..whilst she carried her daughter put into tho back yard. \ neighbour assisted her in a fruitless attempt to resuscitate tho child. Meantime neighbours suppressed the firo in the Jioiise. It ] is supposed tiia fire was caused by the cnildren playing with matches during the 'mother's absence. . ,

. Auckland, Jtarch 31. An inquest on the -girl Brenda Muriel How, who died from suffocation on Fri"p\ , wa ?.,. hel ;! yesterday. After evidence of identification had been taken Serpe?r>t O'Grady. on behalf of the police, said that in the interests of justice they desired an adjoiiniinent to enablo inonirics to lx> made. The Coroner accordinsly ordered an adjournment until Thursday.