CHOKED BY CHOCOLATE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 91, 4 June 1912, Page 3

CHOKED BY CHOCOLATE.

An inquest was held at Bideford, Devon, on a Boy Scout named Robert James Alford, aged 17, who died to mysterious circumstances. A doctor, who had made a post-mor-tem examinatin, suggested that the boy was eating chocolate, which stuck in his throat, causing a spasm of the glottis and suffocation, possibly hastened by the state of his heart, "and that the chocolate afterwards dissolved. A crumb might cause death in similar circumstances.