CHILD STRANGLED
HEAD THROUGH GATE BARS.
P.A. DUNEDIN, June 4.
Lana Faye Neason, aged 14 months, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Neason, of Ravensbourne, died in distressing circumstances. The child's mother found her unconscious with her head through the converging bars of an ornamental gate, and although the child was rushed to hospital, it was found that she had died from strangulation. -Marlborough Express, 4/6/1945.
DEATH OF A CHILD
The adjourned inquest into the death of Lana Faye Neason, aged 14 months who met her death as a result of becoming caught in a gate at her home at Ravensbourne, was concluded yesterday before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.. as coroner. Sergeant J. Develin conducted the proceedings for the police.
Constable E. J. Whitty described the gate, stating that the two bars between which the child's head was caught were seven inches apart at the top and three inches at the bottom. He also produced a statement by the mother of the child in which she said that she found the child in an unconscious condition with her head caught in the gate.
The Coroner referred to the occurrence as a most distressing one, and said he could only find that the child had been asphyxiated though her head becoming caught in a gate. There was nothing the child's mother could have done to avoid the tragic consequences of the accident. -Otago Daily Times, 4/6/1945.
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