ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8960, 28 October 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Wellington, October 27.

An inquest was hold yesterday on the body of the illegitimate child of Amy Priest. Detective Kemp said that from information leceived he had. gone to the Arcadia Hotel on Friday. Ho found Amy Priest, a housemaid, iu bed. She said the child was born through the night. She lost consciousness at the time, and on recovering found that mho child was dead. Medical evidence showed that the child had just commenced to breathe. Had the mother received proper attention, no doubt the child’s life would have been saved. Evidence was given by the girl’s sister and by her room-mate, neither of whom were aware of Amy Priest’s condition A verdict was returned that the child had breathed, but had died during the process of birth.