STRANGLED BY BLOUSE.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 January 1919, Page 4

STRANGLED BY BLOUSE.

CHILD’S STRANGE DEATH

An unusual case of strangulation was brought under the notice of the Sydney city coroner recently, when an inquiry was he-ld jnto the Ideath of Myrtle Gunn, aged 2, who lived with her mother in Leichardt, Evidence~given was that on December 21 the child wal~ playing In the backyard, in her mother’s absence, when she caught her head in a loop of an old blouse that was hanging low from the clothes-line. She was found in this position soon after, and a doctor was called in. His efforts could not revive her, however, and she died the same day. A verdict of accidental death was returned.