CORONER'S INQUEST.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 419, 19 April 1877, Page 3

CORONER'S INQUEST.

An inquest was held at the Crown and . Sceptre Hotel, Naseby, on Saturday last I before L. W. Busch, Esq., J.P., in the absence of the District Coroner, and special jury, on view of the body of William Lindsay, an infant child, six weeks old. From the evidence of the mother, Sarah Lindsay, and the father, John Cockroft, it appeared that the child was quite well on Thursday night when it was taken to bed by its mother, who fell asleep with it at the breast. In ihe morning the child was found dead. Cockroft went to bed early in the evening', under the influence of liquor, but there was no evidence to lead to any suspicion that he in any way was responsible for the death of the child. The mother supposed she must have overlaid the child. Two elder chiidren slept at the foot of the bed. The medical evidence of Dr. Whitton was that death was by suffocation, probably caused by the overlaying of the mother. At daybreak on Friday morning, when it was discovered that the child was dead, Cockroft at once went for the doctor, but it appeared that the child had been dead about two hours, there being no warmth in tho body. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death from suffocation.