BODY OF AN INFANT FOUND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9191, 14 September 1908, Page 5

BODY OF AN INFANT FOUND.

BY TELICO 11APH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, September 13. 1 The body of a male infant was found on the bank of the Avon river, at Burwood, yesterday. It apneurs that Herbert Downes was out hunting hares when his dog, which was near the bank of the river, began to bark, and on going over he discovered thebody of a male child lying face downwards with a string round the neck. The body had been in the water some time. At the inquest to-day Constable Rowe stated that in response to a rriessage he visited the locality whera the body was found. The string was tied three or four tim s round the neck, and the end appeared as if a weight had been tied to it, and had broken away. Dr. Irving, who made a post mortem examination of tne body could not say definitely if child had ever lived. The body was fully de veloped, and newly born, but was in a very decomposed state. Some parts were missing. The string was not tight round the neck, though it had cut deeply into the flesh. The child had been dead too long to say whether the string had been put there during life. The child had been properly born. A verdict was returned that the body had been found on the bank of the river, but there was no evidence to show how it got there.