WATERFRONT WORKER’S DEATH.
BELIEVED TO BE DUE TO POISONING. Per Press Association. TIMARU, May 9. John Patrick Lane, aged 31, single, living at 26 Evans Street, who was one of a party of watersiders engaged in loading the motor vessel, Taranaki last night, was taken home in an unconscious condition apparently suffering from the effects of alcoholic poisoning as a result of allegedly drinking the swill of empty rum casks in the hold of the vessel. The casks were consigned to the Royal Navy, London, and the bungs had been knocked in and apparently sullied round with water. Lane was left on the’verandah and a few minutes later lifted inside, but on the arrival of a doctor he was dead. Five or six other men suffered ill effects nfter consuming similar liquor and received medical attention. The doctor who attended the dead man was unahle to give a certificate of death and an. inquest will be held.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 9 May 1933, Page 6
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157WATERFRONT WORKER’S DEATH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 9 May 1933, Page 6
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