A DUAL INQUEST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 June 1913, Page 5

A DUAL INQUEST.

My Telegraph.—Prtu Auociation.)

INVERCAHGILL Last Night. At the inquest held on Saturday on Daniel Sinclair, who was found drowned in the Waihopai river, evidence was given that the deoeased had apparently walked into the river, hia feet becoming embedded in the soft mud. The suggestion was that lie bad been overcome by a fit and fallen forward. The inquiry was adjourned for medical evidence to be heard. An inquest was also held on the body of a girl two yearq- old, named Edith Miller. The evidence was to the effect that the little girl secured a box of Keating's worm tablets, which had the appearance of loHies. Dr Stewart gave evidence that too many of these tablets would cause a state of collapse, and that dew ' oould have been due to this. Another doctor stated that such a remedy should only be administered under a doctor's orders, and should be put on the poison schedule. The inquest wiis adjourned to enable the child's mother to attend;