FATAL DRINK
ETHER CONSUMED INTRUDER IN HOSPITAL LATER DISCOVERED DYING (P.A.) HEWERA, April 19. Placed in the lock-up at the Hawera police station on Saturday night, a man arrested at the Public Hospital on a charge of being unlawfully on the premise. l was found at midnight to be in a condition other than was believed earlier to be the tesi-lt. of mtoxicalion A doctor was called, but the man died before he could be removed bv ambulance. He was Arthur Francis Munton. aged 45. His last known address was Mercer. He is believed to nave died an a result of drinking etherMurton called at the hospital at 8.30 p.m. with a reciuest that he be admitted for the night, but as there was nothing to warrant his entry as a patient he was turned away. About 10 o’clock the nieht staff reported a prowler about the premises and Munton was found lying on the floor of the laboratory. He was taken t.o the police station and put in a cell. It was ascertained today that a bottle of ether in the laboratory had been opened and some of the contents consumed by the intruder.
An inquest was opened this morning and was adjourned after evidence of identification had been heard.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22616, 20 April 1948, Page 5
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211FATAL DRINK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22616, 20 April 1948, Page 5
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