CAPTAIN'S FATAL MISTAKE
LONDON, October 11. The captain of the steamer Bougainville, now in the Thames, gave his visitors carbolic acid in mistake for wine. Mr Hubert Burrough, of the Stock Exchange, succumbed from the effects, and three other guests are in a critical condition. October 12. The poisoning occurred when the party had gathered to drink success to the vessel's voyage to Australia. The captain and three- others are progressing favourably, but one is in a critical condition.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3005, 18 October 1911, Page 26
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