FARMER'S FATAL DRINK.
OIL MISTAKEN FOR TEA. DEATH OCCURS IN HOSPITAL. [by telegraph.—press association.] STRATFORD, Friday. A farmer, Ralph Carroll, 52 years of age, left home yesterday morning with his son to do some stumping. He took a bottle of tea and a bottle of oil used in working with explosives. At, lunchtime his drank from the bottle of oil, which was poisonous, and collapsed. He died in the hospital to-day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19508, 11 December 1926, Page 10
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