ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A child named Mahin, aged fourteen months, died suddenly at Ngaio yesterday morning. Dr Henry was called to attend it, but when he arrived the child was dead! An inquest will bo held this morning. "Press Association. DUNEDIN, February 27. George Croker Smith, a commercial traveller, apparently about seventy years of age, living at tho Grand Hotel for the past week, was found dead in his bedroom this morning. He suffered from pain between the shoulders, and had been massaged by a porter at 2 ami. He was a .resident of St. Hilda, Melbourne, and from correspondence in his possession was apparently married, with a family. - The post mortem examination disclosed extensile heart disease. Death was attributed to either cardiac failure or angina pectoris. At the inquest a verdict to this effect was returned. Deceased represented tho Wiley and Russell Manufacturing Co., Massachusetts, America. George Kerr, traveller for Taine’s Chemical Stores, Dunedin, was found dead this morning in bed in the Coffee Palace at Balolutha. Death was presumably due to heart disease.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8366, 28 February 1913, Page 7
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175ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8366, 28 February 1913, Page 7
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