A CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY.
THE CORONER’S VERDICT
Christchurch, Dec. 13
The adjourned inquiry into ihe death of Donald Lewis Carrick, aged three years, who was found dead with his head battered early last Saturday morning at Addington, was continued to-day. Sergt. Wohlmann, who conducted the case for the police, said Winifred Carrick, the mother of the child, who is now on remand charged with its wilful murder, had declined to attend the inquiry, as also had her solicitor. Kvidence was given that the child was asleep in its bed at p.ui. on Friday. The coroner returned a verdict that the cause of death was laceration of the brain, the result of wounds inflicted by some person or persons unknown.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1765, 15 December 1917, Page 3
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118A CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1765, 15 December 1917, Page 3
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