FAILED TO TURN OFF THE GAS.
MAN ALMOST ASPHYXIATED- - [BY ■. (TELEGRAPH. —PRESS '/ ASSOCIATION-] ' Christchttrch, One of the members of the special partyr which accompanied - the • Dunedin school 'children ioil;their visit to, Christchurch, J. ' Murdoch, a member of the Mosgiel School; Committee, had ;a serious mishap to-day.? Ho -was : staying at Coker's Hotel, did \ not get up this- morning. On entering his room at noon, one of the hotel attendants» found the apartment full of gas. A gas , jet in the room was, turned on. k - ~- Murdoch, who /was unconscious, -was t at. once ■: conveyed to the ;•• Christchurch Hos- . pital, where his condition was pronounced to > be critical, though his chances ;: of •i te .% covery were considered favourable. .' I* * thought that when turning off the; gas : oP; retiring last Murdoch uhwittihgjy;: turned it on again after the light was tinguished.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15307, 21 May 1913, Page 8
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