SUICIDE BY ALCOHOL
(HJ TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHUR-CH, 20lh June. At the inquest on G. Slratton. labourer, who R-.ii.-s found dead in a boardinghouse with a bottle -of iodine ne.xt io his bed, Ihe evidence of Ihe post-mor-tem was that df-ath was due to coma, the result of acute alcoholic poisoning-. The Coroner said tJie Mler indicated Stv.Tt.lou intended to commit suicide, nr.d possibly though!, an overdose of liquor would, effort lii* tiritt, but the iodine vnwA jv&B ter « poisoned finger* '±
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 146, 21 June 1923, Page 7
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80SUICIDE BY ALCOHOL Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 146, 21 June 1923, Page 7
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