Starving at Christmas.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7068, 14 February 1893, Page 3

Starving at Christmas.

TERRIBLE TALE FROM POPLAR. On Boxing Day Mr Wynne B. coroner for But Louden, held an the Poplar Town,Hall into the attending the death of Hannah flrp hours, the daughter of a dock Poplar.—George W. Osman, the deposed that be was a fitter’s labourer, employment. He produced a test! giving him a reference as a steady, industrious man. His' wife was went to the Bev. J. B. Kite for That gentleman sent a midwife. witness’s wife. Witness then relieving officer, but did not see answer to the coroner, the witness he and bis family had bad although he had had to sell nearly be possessed to get the food. means he applied to the relieving assistance, as be thought he might ■aye bis furniture, but the only got was the offer of the workhr Coroner: You evidently don’t aooording to our' poor must tumble into the gutter picked up. In Germany they thing, they try to prevent a man the gutter. It’s a question not the cheapest in the end ; more humane; (Hear, hear.) - added that he had found food till the last moment, and rather have pawned my shirt have gone without.” Ho bad children at home. Sara Chick,. deposed that she sent for hundredweight of coala, and p out of her own pocket. any food in the house, and the terrible state of destitution. was lying on a heap of straw cover her. (Sensation.) The in the room-,'was a little Witneia asked the children slept,■- and she was the only place she Dr William Murry Leslie, asked to and found the mother was excessively weak, if she had not had enough looked well cared for, conclusion from previous mother had gone without children. Witness’s man bad arrived at the having nothing more The cause of death was. doe to a certain extent to been insufficiently fed. the good character boroe b said it was the horror of thf the that undergo such privations.