INFANT’S DEATH
BODY IN HARBOUR HAD BREATHED ONCE Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified male infant whose body Was found in the harbour on Sunday morning, was held before the Coroner, Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., yesterday. Dr. Wright was of opinion that the child had breathed once. A string was hung loosely round the waist and neck of the child, but there were no marks of external violence. The Coroner remarked that it was impossible to say whether suffocation took place in Wellington or clsev here. His finding was that deceased was found in Wellington Harbour on January 15, the cause'of death being suffocation from an unknown cause on or
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 1
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120INFANT’S DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 1
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