CHILD'S BODY FOUND IN A BRIEF BAG.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 26 November 1912, Page 4

CHILD'S BODY FOUND IN A BRIEF BAG.

THE INQUEST. (By Telegraph—Press - Association.) Auckland, November An inquiry was opened before the coronet' and a jury this morning in connection with the death of an. infant whose body was. found in a locked brief bag on some steps at the waterfront in Quay Street. Dr. Casement Aicken deposed to having made a post-mortem examination. The body was fully nourished, and weighed 61b., which was below the' average. It had been treated in a very primitive manner, and a cord was tied three times round the neck. A pieoo of tape threequarters of an inch wide was. also tied in a reef-knot around the neck. Three oak leaves had been pressed tightly into the child's month. • There was a fracture on the right side of the skull, but .it was possible that this might have been caused when the bag was dropped on the steps. In the opinion of witness the child had lived. The cause of death was suffocation, which might, have been caused by the leaves or the tape referred to. At the request of tho chief detective the coroner granted an adjournment until December 17 to allow of further-police inquiries.