INQUEST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 444, 22 December 1908, Page 2

INQUEST.

An inquest touching the death 1 of Violet Katherine McEwen, aged one year and nine months, was held before Alf! Fraser, Esq., District Coroner, at the local Court- • house this morning. Ethel May McEwen, mother of deceased, deposed that on Sunday * morning at 6.30 o’clock she got up and left the ■ deceased and her sister in bed. At five minutes to seven witness’s; little boy came into the room ;and said “Oh, mother come look at Tiney.” Witnesse’s husband brought deceased into the 'kitchen and her ' ' hair and clothes were afire. Her husband smothered the fire and drove to Foxtorf |br medical assistance. , ’

To the Corofafer: Witness left ithe candlestick* With a v box of matches in it on the washstand and the child must have been > playing with them. George McEWen, father of de- ; ceased, said hein his bed-room " at about five minutes to seven a.m. on Sunday he heard his little boy call out: “ Come and ’ look at Tiney.” £fe ran into the ’ bedroom and picked the child up and carried her to the kitchen. Her nightdress on the left side was on fire and also iM: hair. Extinguished the fire anoi put some salad oil on the burns ' and dressed the i ; burns. Called in i)r. Adams and ■ he attended to the child. Did not " see the child agaihftmtil she was ;■? dead., ;; . . Jj . George Joseph '4-dams, medical practitioner, the nature wM of die injuries, Hefcgain visited : M the? child between and 7 p.ml, when the shock hadppgun to mani* \ j fest itself and contijmpd to increase / ’ Vj in until ,|J died, a few ‘ y miiutes after 7 on Monday .J-|j mqrning. ..'ll if he Coroner ■ a verdict deceased died. froUVahcwk resultinlUßßLLbniim, oausedW hsrn}ghV>'*3|| on-file rja