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Boasting that he could drink a “ pot of whisky,” a 21-year-old labourer tossed off 10 “nobblers" and died, the Melbourne City Coroner (Mr Tingate) was told at the inquest into the death of Mervyn George William McLean, Highett. The coroner found that death was caused by acute alcoholism and suffocation. A barman said that
McLean went into the hotel at Oakleigh on December 1. He had a beei and then a double whisky. McLean then asked for a pot of whisky, and he served McLean with 10 “ nobblers M in a pot. He thought McLean might be taking it away with him. .Constable Murphy, of Malvern, said he saw McLean drink the pot of neat whisky without taking it from ins mouth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 2
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