DEATH OF CHILD.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 304, 8 December 1936, Page 4

DEATH OF CHILD.

Unusual Circumstances Investigated. Press Association —Copyright. Taumarunui, Dec. 7. The death of Zena, the four-year-old daughter of Ernest Prescott, a mechanic, occurred under unusual circumstances on Saturday. The mothere rushed into a neighbour’s house in a demented state with the child in her arms. The father and a doctor were summoned immediately and the child was found to be dead. No coherent statement could be obtained from the mother. An inquest was opened for the purpose of identifification and was adjourned. Last night Dr. Gilmour, pathologist, arrived by car and made a post-mor-tem examination. He found no signs of drowning or suffocation and no marks of violence on the body. In his opinion the child died of shock, the cause of which is not. known. It is suggested that the child received some accidental shock which caused death and that the tragic discovery temporarily unblanced the mo:hers’ mind. She is still unable to give any coherent account of what happened.