GAS POISONING.
WOMAN'S DEATH. CPBBSS ASSOCIATIOH T.ELEGH4M.2 AUCKLAND, September 24 flora Hewitt, aged 25, a single woman, employed as a domestic servant, was found dead in a bathroom at the residence of Mr L. D. Blackworth, Point Chevalier. She had previously expressed her intention to commit suicide, but last week she seemed so well that she was supposed to have abandoned the idea. Mr Blackworth, on finding the bathroom occupied for an undue time and getting no reply to his call, burst'open the door. The girl was in the bath, dead, evidently from gas poisoning, the gas tap being on and every air aperture blocked.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19733, 25 September 1929, Page 16
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105GAS POISONING. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19733, 25 September 1929, Page 16
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