DEATHS DUE TO DRINK

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 99, 24 April 1909, Page 6

DEATHS DUE TO DRINK

WELLINGTON, April 23. \ Last evening a labourer, whose name is unknown, fell over the wharf: He was rescued by a man nafoed Annis and Constable Cummings. Dr. Fisher, ship's surgeon,, was summoned, and the man's re- ' movai to' the hospital, where he subsequently died. The deceased was aged about 45. It was apparent - that he- had partaken of alcoholic liquor prior to his fall into the water. Louie Eastbury, aged 36, died in the hospital yesterday."'> She had been suffering from alcoholic gastritis, and ' was found by the night-nurse out of bed in a coal-hole in a state of collapse. ' • • i Later. The man drowned from the railway wharf last.night has been identified as John Histop, wharf-labourer, who, it is believed, was formerly a resi- , dent of Dunedin. *