Mary Thompson

First Name: Mary
Last Name: Thompson
Sex: 
Female
Age Descriptor: 
child
Child: 
child
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

find that the child has been burnt on the spinal [?] a place as large as a [?] also burnt on the [?] and near mostly all over its body as pieces between [?] as to the cause of her death is from constriction of the brain.

COD Short Description: 
burned in act of child abuse
Original Record: 
2485

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