CORONER'S INQUEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 27 June 1882, Page 2

CORONER'S INQUEST.

. An inquest was held.,on.VMonday-! ''■'" morning at the Marquis.of,»J|prmauby ',, • •Hotel, Carterton, to'. the" cause of death of Alfred Greeks, aged two- "-•"■ years and three months. ;'; ■;• Mary Ann Groeks, tho wife of William :v ' Greeks, and mother of tho child, deposed; •- That the deceased, with other children,' ■•'■ >as playing on the road in front of the '■■ ;ho\ise on Saturday afternoon.- iSho went into the house, and a few tdinu'tei after "'■ .conune out again not seeing the-..deceased .;•'"• asked his elder brother, who .i& nearly v'-X seven yoara old, where he was) ■ The boy••?;■ said ho did not know. She went into the' ■"■''•• garden, and not finding him there went to •'••■'"■ '•'' •' a neighbor's where the children played." ' Mrs Kemp said she did not see him. They ••■■■ 'both continued tho search, atiij.idtimately 'found him in the creek running past Mr; Booth's mill, face downwards. She got".' *... roiotheoreek and picked hira out,-and' ..;■• gave him .to Mrs Kemp, The water was..:: r : : nearly up io her shoulders'. *They took ■{■■''■ 'liim into tho house, aent'fnr'the doctor, ; '■? 'put him into a bath, and rolled him in a • V*' - .blanket and rubbed him;-The doctor' /. ,: arrived four or five minutes after but the- >',-' ••: boy was dead. The child had fallen into s>■ :■' the croek once before, but she .had then-'W- 1 *— febt Mm. out. There.-was a wire.fenc»;'~.'^ : between the garden'tad the creek. About-,:; >■•■' a'quarterofan'hourelapaed between herK '■'■*' : mining thibojf and finding hid'to tlti. &* water. . •■' '■'•• Dr Watt* deposed -.That he was called :;; .*:i fo.lo.MraGreeks' on Saturday afternoon,* •/.■•: 'shortly after W He exaraiwsd boy, but found he was quite dead. The; •■:'-: ftfoe was BiifFused and tho symptoms were-!',.'-';' * ;tHpse of death from drowning. He'.ihould- '.r--n say the child had been dead about halt an i'■;•!■ 'Kqnr or twenty minutes. The; child.' w appeared to have been a healthy tone, .and: ■'•;!''*■: was in good condition,

...The jury returned a verdict of:.-;" acoi.. ■ ;-'i. ■'. den tit death by drowning." iv w