INQUEST AT SHANNON.
An inquest was held at Shannon on Saturday, before Alf. Fraser, Esq. coroner, touching the death of Edwin Geo. Shaw, aged two years and eleven months, who was severely scalded on the 2<fth inst. It appears from the report furnished by the police that the child 'to®k a fit on the 24th and became rigid. Mrs Shaw immediately got a dish, poured hot water into it, tried it with her hand, and then placed the child in it, with the result that the lovyer portion of the child’s body was severely scalded. The little fellow screamed with the pain, and Dr Kennedy was immediately sent for. On arrival he dressed the wounds, but the child gradually got worse, and died on Friday evening at 7 p.m. The medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to shock, the result of scalds and convulsions, and a verdict to that effect was returned.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 885, 30 August 1910, Page 3
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156INQUEST AT SHANNON. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 885, 30 August 1910, Page 3
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