ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10780, 31 May 1911, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pek Pities Association.) Gisborne, May 30. ' .At an inquest'to-day oil ii Chemist's manger, who was found dead in ii shop on. Sunday night,-thc. evi4.ence was to the. effect that.deceased waV somewhat addffcteil to -liquor,' aiicfchad hecti drinking in company with pei> Bon, who underwent ff^%eyfere^cross•examination at the inkiest. 'The'following verdict was returned by' the jurv: "Wo are of opinion that deceased took a, drug, probably strychnine, to tone himself up, and being somewhat ■under the influence of liquor lie took more than he intended to, and was accidentally poisoned." .