TOUNG MAN’S DEATH
—♦ — INVESTIGATION BY POLICE POISON FOUND DURING POST MORTEM (New Zealand Press Assjiciation.) AUCKLAND. October 2. A young English immigrant boarding at a house at Blockhouse Bay. collapsed and died soon after 7 p.m. on Saturday. He was Gordon James Pepper, aged 23, a pottery worker. Mr Pepper, who arrived in the Atlantis last June, soon after the evening meal complained to other men at the house that he was feeling unwell. Ho was leaving the kitchen when he fell on the floor in a violent convulsion. He was dead when a doctor arrived. A trace of poison was found in the post-mortem examination, and handed to Ihe Government analyst (Mr K. M. Griffin) for a report. Further inquiries will be carried on by detectives, headed by DetectiveSergeant Fell.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25924, 3 October 1949, Page 6
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