A BABY'S DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1916, Page 3

A BABY'S DEATH.

FOUND DEAD BY ITS MOTHER, EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. An inquest was opened yesterday at tlu> home of William Cheffings, farmer, at Hillsborough, before Mr. A. Crooke ((lie Coroner), touching the death of Grace Eveline Wooldridge, a baby, six months old, who died there about 1.30 p.m. on Thursday. Daisy Wooldridge said that aboud 1 li.ni. on Thursday she placed deceased on her bed. She was then asleep. She sad the. child again about half an hour later and fed her. The baby then went to sleep. ALout 2 p.m., witness went into the bedroom and found that the deceased had rolled between the inside of the bed and the wall. The baby's legs were hanging down and her head was caught between the wall and the edge of the bed. Witness found that the baby was quite dead. The baby was six months old, and had been a bright, healthy child, and suffered no ailments since birth except the whooping cough, and she had recovered from that. Mary Jane Cheffings said she was on tlie- verandah when she heard her daughter cry out, 'Oh, mother, my baby is dead." ' Witness tried to restore animation without result. The inquest was adjourned to a later date, and will be resumed at the Courthouse, New Plymouth.