THE RONA BAY MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1923, 4 December 1913, Page 7

THE RONA BAY MYSTERY.

INQUEST AGAIN ADJOURNED. The adjourned .inquest concerning tin death of the child Tholma May Davis, whoso body was found under » house at Ijbna Day on November M last, was continued boforo llr.'W. G. Hi'ddeli, 5.M.," Coroner, yesterday afternoon. ' Evidence was givei'i by Dr. .FyJfo to the effect that the body was that of. mi extremely wcll-iumrislwd child, apparently a i'enmle between tlio ago of eiffhtccn inoutiis and two years. Th.:ra were no external marks of violence 1 , and it was quite impossible, under tlio circumstances, to stale the cause <f death. If.the infant had died from a natural cause it must have Own a very acute one.' Winifred H. Myall, a resident nf Christchurcli, gave corfoborntivo evidence tn that given at tlio previous hearing of the evidence. She idenlilied the clothes mi the deceased chiM as those got ready for it on September . 2!), the day boforo the mother took it away. .Mary Anne Sq.vnionr, of Christchurcli, mother of Ellen Margaret Seymour, and Kdward .J, Seymour, father, gavn evidence to the effect that she (Ellen ■ I Seymour) had left for Wellington about nine weeks ago. The latter stated tlur.fc■ his daughter did not have the deceased 'child'with'her on the day she had left, but had had her sister's young boy. ' She had had two dressing-eases with • lier, and had left behind a perambulator. Miss Jennie Dixon, steward on tlio Wahine, stated that accused had tfnvellod by the steamer to 'Wellington, and was accompanied by. a boy about four .years old. , At this stage the- inquest was adjourn* cd until 10..10 a.m. io-da.v.