AGRUESOME FIND.

Otaki Mail, 20 December 1922, Page 2

AGRUESOME FIND.

CHILD'S BODY BUEIED IN SANE I THE COKO.VEK'.S IXQUEST. I An inquest was held be/ore Mr IK. Hunt. S.M.. on Monday afternoon on the body of the infant ehild fount | at Lyall Bay. Harold Prank Frcm-u. residing a I 119. A.pu Crescent, Lyall Bay, said tha: at about 4.30 p.m. on Saturday he wa. ! walking on flu* beach with -his wife when his attention was drawn,to a doj scratching in the sand, at what appear c.'d to bin) Hi be a thick piece of sea weed, but on clo>er examination prov jed to be the body of an infant, lit did not examine the body closely; but immediately informed the custodian 01 the beach, who reported-the matter xn j The Lyall Bay police station. | Constable Wallace, stationed at i.y all Bay. said tha! on rewiring a call : from the Lyall Bay beach custodian he visited the beach and there saw the legs of a child protruding from the sand about 50* feet above high-water mark. The body »a; wrapped in brown paper. There were no discernible marks oil the an far as he could see. Dr. Hector, who made a post-mortem examination of the body of the child, said that it was that of _a feniaie child,, apparently newly born. The body, which weighed 61bs in its present condition, bore no mirks of injuries or disease, and in his opinion had bees buried for stout a fortnightThe coroner's verdict we« that there wa; no evidence be to ho-*- des.tfc wae caused.