INFANT’S DEATH
MOTHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. BY TBLBGBAPH.—.PIIBSS ASSOCIATION. Hamilton, February 9. The infant twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Scott, of Waitoa, met her death last evening in an unusual man? ner. The twins, aged 81 months, were playing together in their cot, an ifonfrained one, about 6.30. The mother left them for a short time, having household duties to attend to in an adjoining room. When she returned she found that one child had wriggled its body between the frame and the mattress, and was hanging by her neck. Life was extinct.
A doctor who was called pronounced death to be due to strangulation.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 11
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106INFANT’S DEATH Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 11
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