ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1919, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

INQUEST OX MOTHER AND CHILD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A double inquest, disclosing some distressing features, was held to-day by Mr. McCarthy, coroner. The inquiry was into the circumstances surrounding the death of an infant female, the illegitimate child of Ivy Trigance, and ■of Ivy Trigance herself, a single woman, aged 26 years. In connection with the death of the child, whose body was found in a chest of drawers at her mother's late residence, evidence was given that the cause of death was congestion, due to strangulation. A verdict was returned that the child died as the result of strangulation intentionally caused by the mother. In connection with the death of the mother in hospital on February 26 a verdict was returned that death was due to septicaemia, the coroner adding that the cause of such septicaemia was neglect after the birth of the child. A MOTOR FATALITY. Wellington, Last Night. On Saturday afternoon Mrs Gentles, a resident of Wellington, was thrown from a motor-car owing to the car running over a bank. She" was admitted to hospital suffering from concussion, and died