DEATH FROM SWALLOWING A NEEDLE.
[BT TIIKGBAPIf.—PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Monday, ] A man named James Brooks, of Karori, met his death under circumstanoes of a j peculiar and most painful nature. He felt a pricking in the throat, while eating his dinner, which became more and more unendurable, and bleeding from the month set in. He went to the hospital, but no cause could be found, and no relief given, and the poor fellow eventually died in agony, A post mortem showed that he had swallowed a needle, which had perforated a blood vessel in the stomach. He leaves a widow with five young children, in poor circumstances.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10129, 12 May 1896, Page 5
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