THE ADDINGTON MURDER
VERDICT OF THE CORONER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, December 14. The adjourned inquiry into the death of Donald ' Lewis Carrick, aged three years, who was found dead with his head battered, early last Saturday uiorning, at Aldington, was continued to-day. Sergeant Wohlmann, who conducted the caso for tho police, said that Winifred Carrick, the mother of the child, who is now on remand, charged with its wilful murder, had (feclined to attend ffie inquiry, as also had her solicitor. Evidonce was given that the child was asleep in its bed at 9 p.m. on Friday. The Coroner returned a verdict that tho cause of death was laceration of the brain, the result of wounds inflicted by some person or_ persons, and that thero was no evidence as to who such person or persons were.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 10
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137THE ADDINGTON MURDER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 10
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