A FOOLISH ACT.
By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. A domestic servant named Elizabeth Shepperd was taken to the hospital today suffering from phosphorus poisoning. She is alleged to have swallowed the dissolved heads of five boxes of matches, and shortly afterwards Informed her mistress, who immediately sent ! for medical aid. The girl, who has been depressed in spirits lor some time I is now out of danger. '
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 199, 20 August 1904, Page 4
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68A FOOLISH ACT. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 199, 20 August 1904, Page 4
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