OTAGO FATALITIES.
A MINER DROWNED,
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION , .)
Dctnedin, this day. At the inqnesb at Palmeraton on Freeland, Professor Black said the analysie of the stomach disclosed the presence of an excessively email quantity' of strychnine. It would require 500 times as much to cause death. Dr. Neala's opinion was that death was due to strychnine. A verdict of "Buicide" was returned.
Peter Tiernan, a miner, 57 years of age, a resident of St. Bathans, was drowsed in a tail race in front of his house.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 7 September 1895, Page 5
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86OTAGO FATALITIES. Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 7 September 1895, Page 5
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