BODY OF AN INFANT FOUND
Bj Telegraph—Presn Association.' Christchurch, May 2G. The dead body of a newly-born male child was found by boys yesterday on the bank of the Hcathcote River. It had been wrapped in a piece of blanket and placed in a sugar sack. The body had not been in the water, but liad been in the sack for some time, as decomposition had set in. There are no marks of violence on tho body.
An inquest was opened before .the Coroner, Mr. S. E. M'Carthy. Dr. Pearson said the body was that'of a male child. It had been dead four or five days. The child had lived,-but probably when it died it had only been alive a few hours. The body showed no signs of violence, and he could not assign any definite W.U6O of, death. Exposure to the outride air would be sufficient to kill it. The child was a perfectly healthv one, and the organs were all normal. Tho inquest was adjourned.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 207, 27 May 1919, Page 6
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167BODY OF AN INFANT FOUND Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 207, 27 May 1919, Page 6
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