POISONED BY MATCHES.
» Extraordinary Case. Per Press Association. Auckland. Last Night. A most extraordinary accident occurred last night, when Mr D. Russell, school teacher of Waihou, near Te Aroha, and his wife and three girls, ranging from about twelve to three years of age, were accidentally poisoned with phosphorous. It appears thit while the youngest girl was playing with a teapot and a box of wax vestas, which unknown to her sister she put into the teapot, tea was made, and the accident was not discovered till the meal was nearly finished, and the teapot was being filled a second time. 'J hen the box of matches was seen in the teapot. A doctor was immediately telegraphed for. Meanwhile emetics were administered with good effect. When the doctor arrived Mrs Russell was in a semicollapsed condition, but the others were out of danger. To-day Mrs Russell was reported to be progressing favourably.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7759, 8 July 1903, Page 2
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