MAN SUFFOCATED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1924, Page 7

MAN SUFFOCATED.

OVERCOME BY FUMES. A married man named Leslie John Brown, residing at North Sydney, walked into a room filled with deadly fumes last week. It is supposed that he forgot that the room < was being fumigated, and he entered it to have a rest. When an investigation was made, he wag found stretched out on a bed, dead. Workmen, of whom Brown was one, had been engaged in renovating the building. One the day in question one of the rooms was fumigated with a cyanide preparation. It is said that all’ the workmen, including the deceased, were aware that it would be fatal to enter the room, and it was also stated to the police that a notice was displayed near the room, drawing attention to the danger. ' , After the room had been fumigated the door, which is fitted with a Yale type of lock, was closed, and the key taken, but later in the day a workman was surprised to notice that a key was in the door. Following the discovery, an investigation was made, and Brown was found lying lifeless on a bed in the booms. The tragedy, in several particulars, closely resembles a recent fatality in Newcastle, when a young barmaid walked into a room filled with fumes, and was asphyxiated.