SAD DOUBLE INQUEST.
i —♦ Christchurch, IY roll 3. A double inquest, diselo. ivg. some distressing features, was held to-day by itr McCarthy, coroner. The in--1 quirv was into the circumstances sur- | rounding the death of an infant female, ; illegitimate child of Ivy Trigancc, and !of Ivy Trigancc herself, a single woman aged 20. In connection with ! the death of the child, whose body was | found in a chest of drawers at the mother’s late residence, evidence was given that cause of death was'eonges- > tion, due to strangulation. A verdict was returned that the child died as the result of strangulation intentionally caused by the mother. In connection with the death of the mother, who died in the hospital on I February 26, a verdict was returned of ! death due to septicaemia, the coroner Vidding that the cause of such was /neglect after the birth of the child.
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Otaki Mail, 5 March 1919, Page 4
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