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INQUEST AND COMMITTAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
At the inquest held yesterday at the Red Lion Hotel, Sydney Flat, on the body of the child Rebecca Balderstone, aged four weeks, found dead in her bed on Sunday night last, evidence was adduced to show that the child had been most grossly neglected by the mother for two days previous to her death, she (the mother) having been drinking during that time, and also that both parents were in a state of intoxication when they went to bed with the child on the night of her death. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was suffocated whilst in bed with her parents, Christopher and Maria Balderstone, and they found that she came by her death through the culpable neglect of her parents, especially that of her mother, both being in an intoxicated state on the night she died. After the verdict had been given, both parents were committed on the coroner's warrant for trial at the next Circuit Court. The depositions of the witnesses will be found in another column.
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