A SAD CASE.
MOTHER'S EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT. Per Press Association. OunisTciiuiicu, February 2-1. At an inquest held to-day concerning the death of a tlirco month's child named Clara Savicri, whose nude body was found wrapped up in brown paper in Colombo slreet yesterday, medical evidence was given that death was due to dysentery. The child's mother stated that on Monday night she slept with the child on the concrete floor of a yard. The child died the next morning, but she kept the body till Friday, when she put it in the space between a house and a fence in Colombo street, The Coroner said the cause of death was plain, but the behaviour of the mother of the child was extraordinary. It was a sad case, and she was probably unhinged by the tram of events, A verdict was returned that death was duo to natural causes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 2
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147A SAD CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 2
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