A MAN POISONED.
POSSIBLY A CASE OF SUICIDE.-
[Special to Express.]
HAVELOCK, Feb. 16. Frank Sparks, aged 56, about 3 p.m. yesterday asked for a drink of tea. He drank a. glass of oil in which blast-ing-charges for tree-stumps had been soaked.
Dr Williams, of Havelock was summoned, but- arrived too late to avert fatal consequences, and Sparks died at 8.30 p.m.
It is not certain whether the case is one of suicide. An inquest will be held to-day. Jlie deceased leaves a wife and five children. He had been engaged in shearing.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 40, 16 February 1907, Page 5
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93A MAN POISONED. Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 40, 16 February 1907, Page 5
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