ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
(BY TEIEGRAPfI— »P»BSB ISSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON, 25th June. At 9.30 to-night two local residents discovered in one of the Square reserves a man suffering violently from the effects of poison. The man was then unconBciouß. A doctor and the police were brought to tlie scene, but the man died in about half an hour. He had apparently taken the whole contents of a small bottle of disinfectant and then laid down on the seat to die. On searching the clothes the police found that deceased's name was T. Gilligan, but no other details were ascertained. • He was aged about 35 years. CHRISTCHURCH, 25th June. An old man named Francis Purse, 69 years of age, Was admitted to the hospital this afternoon suffering from cuts, self-inflicted. The affair took place in the public gardens, to which the old man was almost a daily visitor. He had- been in low spirits lately, and suffered from hallucinations, and this afternoon took it into his head to hack himself about with a penknife. tHe inflicted a nasty wound in his wrist, and cut himself about in other ways, losing a considerable quantity of blood in the process. -- Against Accidents and Sickness insure with The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Ltd. ? 117 and 121, Custom-house-quay, Wellington.— Advf. •
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 150, 26 June 1913, Page 7
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214ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 150, 26 June 1913, Page 7
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