POISON INSTEAD OF TEA
FARMER'S FATAL MISTAKE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
STRATFORD, 10th December.
A farmer, Ralph Carroll, aged 52, left home yesterday morning with a son to do some stumping, taking a bottle of tea, and a bottle of oil used in the ex-, plosives in stumping work. At lunch-time Carroll drank from the bottle of oil, which is poisonous, and collapsed, dying at the hospital to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 141, 11 December 1926, Page 10
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