The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-03 00:00:00

SINGULAR AND DISTRESSING DEATH OF A
CHILD AT BLANDFORD.

On Tuesday last an Inquest was held before Br. W.
B. Atkinson and a respeotable jury, on the body of
Grace Anne Smith, aged three years and three months,
dauabter of flfr. B. B. Smith, tailor, Market-square,
Blandford, wh se death occurred under most distress-
ing eireumetanc-s. The jury was oomposed of the
following tradmman of the town : Kr. Isom George
(foreman), Iles.ra Ernes, Abbott, James 8.11, William
Thou er Blgar. Joeeih litawart, John Barnes, John
Watts, itderard Joseph Langhant Brown, William
lide- _ .

Pond, Wellington ...Award Groves, Juhu I.mdsay,
James Henry Berdett. sod Henry Lawrence, who root
at the Greyhound Inn, and, having been sworn, pro.
weeded to new the body. On their return the follow.
log *sidearm wee given :—Ltsey Bromide Smith: I am
the sister of the deceased. I lent saw her alive lent
night shoos • quarter to eight o'clock. About a goa-
tee of an hoar ly±fore I was present, nod saw my
mother give the deceased an Injection mole of t Maim
steeped in water —half in ounce of torimr.,,
afterwards dee:aged was very sink. My fensor wont
for assistance and Mr. Daniell Immo. I b0b..., the
tobacco was fettlei from Mr. Gill's Tile chftl heel
been aufferi.,g a krost deal from worms. K.igtr
&moot% baltic : I nin the father ce: the doimosad. iy
daughter hid been ...fru ice greatly from worm., crying
much at night. Let nl,ht I saw sour_ t hlrg ai sing
and WM 4,14 by my wife t• it it wee for ihs 4,11118 I
have sine., tumid that it we sts-il as au hj
the deceased. I want lota the room whore ci;
and the mother wore a,..d Itund the chil very etch,
sod I went for Mr. were,
within • minute or two.
My wife maid "I am druid I bay hurt the ; lon
for the doctor direetly." If. used bm twat deer. When
we went into the room we found the clad(' worse. Mr.
Datdell adviod an ~j elms of warm weter„ &pi went
bonze to fetch remothlog. We elm the child too
warm wit,r iuj •ctions, but with to rff.,et. Mr. Mobil
came down seen eft. -r es..d gave Op. child two wore ia•
jeetious. but sis Hod almost immediately. The shod
bead •Iways been delicate. hhe lived from IS to 20
minutes eft, r the fnj _otion. By the Formula": All thst
loan learn a, t, the crease of the id ,irion being good Is
that coy w:fe .ous icc L 'laden is t week, end way tel lby
r mother that she bad heard an le j otiou of tele.cao
water ems • good thing for the 'urine. Mr. G:rovoe
acid the syrinae whieh ho on erstood had been Dad
would not hold more tin, a quarter of a pint. Mr.
George Wiliam on Dautell : I arn a surgooo, residing
in Blandford Forum. List evening, a little b.fore
eight o'clock, I wag fetched by the last witnea,.
told roe he thought the child try ill in CJLit q 10,00
Of its having had an ideation of tobacco water to bring
away some worms, from which they knew the ohdd was
suffering. I wept, and saw the child was suffering from
narcotic poteo..ing. I emus dente!, ran home to fetch
whet I tNought advisable, ami on my retnrn I found the
child a great deal worse. I prooeeded to ad.oinieler on
It jeotion, and the ohld died whilst Iwe dein; it. I
bailee. the deeered was poi.oord by the ij cti .0 I
tab ace water. It i, whet we seldom or ever use in to
profeasion. Forty grains to e pint of water would be
aufßolent for a strong wan. I raw the iofusion used, and
It appeared to be a strong decoclon of tobzoeo. The
child was very heathy. By the foremm : The pole .o.
11,g by tub co Las • special •otioo on the h:•ar:. It
absorbs the bloc?, end stops lid twin; through the vein/.
I have known • ea•ti where a boy et school waa given
• small piece of toboaccs In a 64 and It nearly killed
him. By a Jurymm : Mis. Smith woe iii a Tory
excited state, but I gathered from what a` • said (hit
she had beard it wee • good thing for worms. This
wee the whole of the evidence, but Mr. Daniel slated
that nicotine, the sates spirit of tobeetws, won the
quit:A.4 INA most 1..tal if all narootie potion., and
referred to the ewe of • celeerated medleal analyst who
determined to try its if cue, aid though be only gook
• grain he died instaht y, end Dr. Copoland gave as
lista-we where only 20 grains of tohaace were used,
whiah termivat d fatally. The Corouor then summed
up. The first thing for the jory to oonMder wet. ',Luther
the child died front the offsets of an injection tel tothuma
water. Of that there &sold not be any double
ii.oodly, by whem we. It schatalatered The aaewet
meld only be—by He mother. Thirdly, and the only
gestation which the jury really had to decide note we.
—With what intention was it given P 110 beder,A tie
jury would all rm.- with him that it was arirei„i„imd
with the beet intent Mos. No mother woe d hays es
sated if she had bees at an aware of the result.. Tim
jury, without any InesitatMe. reterned al their umiak
Ties the ostsasso, Grua, Anne Smith, died from
the effects of an Ideation of Mroog totems° vat. sit:
ministered to her by her mother for the purpose of
destroying worms, and ht iglintiumw SI Oa deleterious
awls."