SINGULAR DEATH.
1 BLENHEIM, December 11. Mrs C. H. Knowles, aged 30 years, the wife of a Wairau Valley storekeeper, died unexpectedly at the doctor's residence in town. A few days ago she was chopping wood, when a splinter entered her eye. Frequent surgical operations were performed without anaesthetics, but failed to give relief, and the woman was much exhausted by the pain. She wae, however, - able to communicate with her husband across the telephone this afternoon, afterwards undergoing another operation, during which she died in the chair from heart
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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 25
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90SINGULAR DEATH. Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 25
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