BABY SMOTHERED
MOTHER FELL ASLEEP Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. ‘ Deaths of this description are fortunately comparatively rare these days, and I do not think I have known such a case for many years," said the. coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, to-day, after finding that the death of Agnes Laurie Davis, aged seven weeks, was due to asphyxia. It was stated that the baby had been taken into its mother's bed at night, but, instead of replacing the child in its cot as usual, the mother fell asleep. At 1.5 a.m. she awoke and found the child dead in hex arms.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 16
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