A SAD FATALITY.
LITTLE GIRL’S DEATH. Easter week was marked by a sad fatality in Timaru on Saturday evening, when Gladys Stone, a little girl aged two years, was drowned near her parents’ residence. The little fjii'l, who was a daughter of AlrAVilliam Stone, a wharf labourer, residing” at 50 Turnhull Street,-was last seen at a quarter past six in the evening, when she was playing in the yard.. Later, her mother was unable to find her, and after a search in which some of the neighbours assisted, the child was found halfpast nine Iving head downwards., in a disinfectant tin, which at tho time was partly filled with water. . The. police were communicated with' and medical assistance obtained, but nothing could be. done. It was considered that life had been extinct for some considerable time before the bodywas found. , An inquest will be held to-day. :
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 8
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146A SAD FATALITY. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 8
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