ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
ACCIDENTALLY POISONED. __ • (By Tcl<:eraDh-Pre£3 Association.) Gisborne, May 30. ' At the inquest to-day on the chemist's manager, who was found dead in his shop on Sunday night, the evidence van to the effect that deceased was somewhat addicted to liquor and had been drinking in company with a- prohibited person who underwent a severe cross-examination at the inquest. The following ■.rerdict was returned by the. jury:—"Wo are of opinion that deceased took a. drug, probably strychnine, to tone- himself up, and being somewhat under the influence of liquor, he took more than he intended to, and was accidentally poisoned." BODY FOUND IN A RIVER. Td Kuiti, May 30. Tho body of a man found in tho AVaitomo River on Sunday night has been identified as that of John Gundy, a carpenter, of . Otorohangn, who had been ill, and was seen wandering about for two days,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1141, 31 May 1911, Page 8
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