ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
(Peb United Peess Association.) WESTPORT, September 15. At an inquest to-day touching the death of Edward Bradley, who was found on Wednesday in a dying state near his hujv and who shortly afterwards collapsed, -it .. was shown that the deceased went to the* hospital to sweep chimneys, and that a bottle of stout was left out for his supper, also that a bottle of carbolic disinfectant was left in the kitchen where it had been in use for disinfecting purposes, and the deceased had by mistake, on finishing his job in the morning, taken the disinfectant away with him and swallowed some of it. Apparently he was trying to get back to the hospital when he collapsed on the roadside. A verdict of accidental death through taking poison by mistake waa returned. ... WELLINGTON, September 14. John Tattersall, ,40 years of age, succumbed in the hospital this.evening as a result of a fall from a tram while alighting at- Island Bay. \ ■ ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18352, 16 September 1921, Page 4
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