BABY STRANGLED
NO CLUE TO IDENTITY FOUND AT LADIES’ BAY finding that, death was caused by strangulation, but there was no evidence to show the identity of the victim or who was responsible tor the set, the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., returned that verdict at the inquest today on the body of a newlybim baby girl, which was found 'rapped in a brown-paper parcel on the water’s edge of Ladies’ Bay, on August 31 last. A schoolboy, Mervyn St. Clare, while walking along the foreshore toward Karaka, said he found the parcel tied with string near the water’s edge. Opening one end he saw hair and the hones of the baby’s head. He expressed the opinion that the parcel had just been washed up as it had not been there four days previously. Dr. E. Bevan-Brown, assistant pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, stated the child’s mouth was stuffed with cottonwool and a strip of cloth was tightly bound round the baby’s neck. The child had breathed, and death had been caused jy strangulation or suffocation about three hours after birth.
Detective McWhirter stated that all inquiries to discover the mother of the child had failed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 1
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