A CORONER’S WARNING
WARMING GELIGNITE IN AN OVEN INQUEST ON CHILD'S DEATH [Per United Press Association,] PALMERSTON N., September 25. “ In the light of the present case any, person adopting this method of warming gelignite will be guilty not only of gross ignorance, but of extreme negligence,” commented the coroner at the inquest to-day when returning a verdict that Nita Cowdrey, aged 4, died on September 18 from a cerebral abscess, the result of injury accidentally, received through an explosion of gelignite which wrecked a house at Halcombe on July 12, injuring seven persons, including the deceased. Her father, Frank Cowdrey, gave evidence that he was warming 50 plugs (51b) of gelignite in an oven in accordance with a practice he had followed for some years, when an explosion occurred.
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Evening Star, Issue 22143, 25 September 1935, Page 8
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130A CORONER’S WARNING Evening Star, Issue 22143, 25 September 1935, Page 8
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