CHILD’S DEATH
FACE AND HEAD INJURIES MOTHER TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. POLICE INVESTIGATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day._ The police are investigating incidents which occurred on the slopes of Mount Victoria about noon on Friday, when a child two years and five months received severe gashes to the face and head from which he afterwards died in the Wellington Public Hospital. It is thought that the wounds were inflicted with a tomahawk or small hatchet.
The mother of the child, .Mrs Ellen M. Harrison, of Ngaio Road, Eastbourne, was admitted to hospital soon afterward and is still a patient there under observation. Her condition last night was reported to be satisfactory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1942, Page 2
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