KILLED BY RUM OVERDOSE.
WaiEx engaged in loading a barge with peppercorns at the West India Docks. London, some labourers by illicit means possessed themselves of a quantity of rum and drank themselves into such a condition of insensibility that one of them named Edward Smith, aged 42. died a few hours later in Poplar Hospital. * At the inquest it wa s stated that there were thousands of pun- „ 0 rum on the quay over-proofed to the extent of nearly 30 degrees, and, despite a if the precautionary measures, labourers occasionally managed to get the spirits bv the process known as " sucking the monkev," or as a . resulj. of the barrels leakin™ * The jury returned a verdict of "death from acute alcoholic poisoning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16282, 15 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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