Last (Thursday) night an inquest was held at the Railway Hotel, Rushden, by Mr. T. Cook, deputy coroner, touching the death of Ivy Ida Payne, aged three years, the child of Frederick Payne, currier, of Rushden-hill, who died the previous day from burns.

Mr. Harry Knight was foreman of the jury.

Ethel Payne, an intelligent girl 13 years of age, said: I manage the house for my father. On Monday between 4 and 5 p.m., I was prepar¬ing tea to take to my father, and, when I was wiping up some water that had been upset, the deceased (my sister) tipped over the teapot which I had just filled with boiling water. The hot liquid fell over the child and went down her neck,

I took off her clothes, and a neighbour (Mrs. Dover) came up and put some oil on the wounds. I went down to fetch the town nurse and told her what had been done. She said that what her what had been done. She said that what we had done was all right. She came up the next morning. On Tuesday evening we went for two doctors. Dr. Crew came and attended to deceased. On Wednesday between 6 and 7 a.m., deceased had convulsions, and she died at 11 o'clock. Everything possible was done for the child.

Nurse Boge deposed: On Monday night I had a note from the father telling me that the child had been scalded and that the wounds had been dressed with oil, and asking if anything better could be done. I replied that no better steps could be taken but that he must send for a doctor and I would go the next morning. I went on Tuesday at 11 a.m., and found the wounds had been dessed with oil and that the child was

The temperature was normal and there was no collapse. I dressed the wounds with eucalyptus and vaseline. Next day I went again and the child was dead. When I knew the child had been subject to convulsions I was not surprised at death.

Dr. Crew stated: Deceased's father came to me on Tuesday about 9 p.m. and I at once went see the child. I found Mrs. Dover nursing the deceased, who was restless and suffering pain. The chest and right arm were scalded. On Wednesday the child died from convulsions, caused by the burns. The father is a widower, the mother having died a year ago during a confinement.

A Juror: It was

Dr. Crew: The deceased would not have died from the burns apart from convulsions. Deceased had been rather subject to convulsions.

The Coroner said the sister. Ethel, seemed to have carried out her duties most creditably.

Verdict, "Death from convulsions caused by burns received accidentally."