EXCESSIVE DOSE OF SPIRITS
PLUMBER DIES IN HOSPITAL
DEPRESSED MENTAL STATE
fßy Telegraph —Press Association.) DANNEVERKE, Aug. 26. Found standing alongside his motor truck on Thursday near Dannevirke evidently very ill, Leonard Vincent Stewart, plumber, died in Dannevirke Hospital. At the inquest to-day a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence that death was due to shock consequent on an excessive dose of .spirits of salts, self administered while in a state of mental depression and suffering severe physical pain.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 9
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