CHILD’S BODY FOUND
Press Association.; CHRISTCHURCH. May 26. - The dead body of a newly-born, male child was found by* boys on Sunday on the bank of tiba Heathcote river. It had been wrapped in a piece of blanket and placed in a sugar sack. The body hod not been in the water, but had been in the sack for some time, as decomposi-tion-had sot in. There are no marks of violence on the body. The inquest was opened before the Coroner, Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M. Dr. Pearson said the body was that of a male child, and it had been dead for four or five days. The child had lived, but probably when it died it had only been alive a few hours. The body showed- no signs of violence, and ho could not assign any definite cause of death. Exposure to the outside air would be sufficient to kill it. The child was a perfectly healthy one,, and the organs all normal. The inquest war adjourned.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10290, 27 May 1919, Page 4
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168CHILD’S BODY FOUND New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10290, 27 May 1919, Page 4
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