SUFFOCATION IN A BREWERY
CHRISTCBUJRCH,Sth December. A fatal accident occurred to-day at the Union Brewery, Bath-street, th« victim being a young man named John Whitman Gray, twenty-three years of age, who resided with his parents 'at Sandyford-streefc, Sydenham. According to a statement made to the police ' it was Gray's duty to clean, out thevati by playing on them with hot water from the side, so as to rid them .of gas. At 1.15 p.rtf. another' employee, Victor Colcher, found deceased face downwards in the bottom of the vat with the hot water still running. < When the body wag found there * v*as no evide&CA of fumes, but appearances pointed to death being due to suffocation. A doctor was called in and pronounced life to be extinct, and the body was re« moved to the morgue. Deceased was last seen alive' by Colcher at 12.5 p.m., when he was in good health and spirit*. It , is , supposed that he was overcome by gases and fell into the vat and was ther scalded by the hot wato*.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 137, 6 December 1912, Page 3
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174SUFFOCATION IN A BREWERY Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 137, 6 December 1912, Page 3
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