ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.
BOTTLE ON MINING CLAIM. YOUTH'S FATAL CURIOSITY. [BY TELEGRAriI. —TRESS ASSOCIATION'.] DUNEDIN, Monday. The Balclutha police advise that Leslie John Taylor, aged 19, whose parents live at Paretai, 60 miles south from Dunedin, died yesterday afternoon after swallowing poison. With another youth he was on a fishing expedition and they visited an abandoned gold-mining claim. Here they found a bottle containing cyanide, which Taylor tasted from curiosity. Be died almost at one®.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21020, 3 November 1931, Page 8
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74ACCIDENTALLY POISONED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21020, 3 November 1931, Page 8
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