Myllis Cook

Death of Millicent Cook:

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW) Thu 19 Sep 1901

A Child Drowned. Sad Fatality at Bombira.

On Tuesday evening it was reported to the police that a little girl, daughter of Mrs. Cook, who resides near the racecourse, had been drowned in a small tank close to her mother's house (snip).

Helen Cook deposed : I am the wife of John Cook, and I live near the Mudgee racecourse. I have been living apart from my husband for nine years ; I have seen the body now lying at my house, and it is that of my daughter Millicent ; she was two years and two days old (snip)

I decline to say who is father of the child. The jury brought in a verdict that the deceased was found in a dam at her mother's residence, without any marks of violence upon her body, and that death was caused by suffocation, the result of accidental drowning.