Death by Drowning - Yesterday afternoon, the city Coroner held a second inquest, at the Waterloo Retreat inn, Waterloo, respecting the cause of death of a child, named Walter R R Abbott, aged thirteen months, residing with his father, who is a market gardener, at Waterloo. The father stated that shortly before 1 o 'clock on Saturday, while he was digging in the garden, his wife, who had been to the house with some cabbages, came to him, and, missing the child, asked him where it was, he went to meet her, and before he got up to her his wife called out that the child was drowned, witness then saw her pull the child out of the drain in the garden she then took him into the house, and means wore adopted to restore animation, but without avail, there were about six inches of water in the drain in which the child was drowned none of the drains were protected by rails or fences. The mother gave corroborative evidence, Dr Warren gave it as his opinion that death had resulted from drowning and the jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowned.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 14 October 1873
The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 14 October 1873
Death by Drowning - Yesterday afternoon, the city Coroner held a second inquest, at the Waterloo Retreat inn, Waterloo, respecting the cause of death of a child, named Walter R R Abbott, aged thirteen months, residing with his father, who is a market gardener, at Waterloo. The father stated that shortly before 1 o 'clock on Saturday, while he was digging in the garden, his wife, who had been to the house with some cabbages, came to him, and, missing the child, asked him where it was, he went to meet her, and before he got up to her his wife called out that the child was drowned, witness then saw her pull the child out of the drain in the garden she then took him into the house, and means wore adopted to restore animation, but without avail, there were about six inches of water in the drain in which the child was drowned none of the drains were protected by rails or fences. The mother gave corroborative evidence, Dr Warren gave it as his opinion that death had resulted from drowning and the jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowned.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 14 October 1873
The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 14 October 1873
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