PROFESSOR'S DEATH.
GAS POISONING GASE. NOBLE WORK FOR HUMANITY. Australian rmd N'.Z. Cable Association. (ReccL 3.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. Professor Lefroy who had been unconscious for three days and nights as a result of inhaling poison gas, with which he had been experimenting, has died. The Morning Post says that only a few of Professor Lefroy's intimate friends knew that he was suffering from inoperable cancer. He continued work in Lis laboratory knowing that his limit of life was three years. He had declared that before he died he wanted to see the death-watch beetle exterminated. The professor had told a friend a week ago that he believed he was on the track of a substance which would so treat wood as to make it impossible for insects to breed in it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19150, 16 October 1925, Page 11
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