GAS POISONING.
A CASE AT AUCKLAND,
AUCKLAND, June 10,
An unusual discovery was made shortly after 10 o’clock last night by Constable Whiting, who was on duty in Upper Queen street. On the advice of a pedestrian that something untoward had oc' curred at a second-hand shop at the corner of Queen and Wakefield streets, ho proceeded in the direction indicated, and entering the shop found the occupier (a man named J. Lazer) sitting in a chair in an apparently unconscious state. A length of piping connected with the gas jet had been led under the chair, and the gas had been turned on. Lazer was found to be in a considerably dazed condition, and was removed to his home at Ponsonby by his wife.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3196, 16 June 1915, Page 77
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125GAS POISONING. Otago Witness, Issue 3196, 16 June 1915, Page 77
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