SUFFOCATED BY GAS
MARRIED MAN’S DEATH. DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES. AUCKLAND, August 23. To be suffocated in his sleep while his bedroom slowly filled with gas was the fate of a draper’s assistant named Harold Clement Poole, aged 39, who was found dead this morning by his wife in their city flat. The circumstances are particularly distressing. Poole slept in a room by himself, his wife and little daughter occupying' another room. A small gas heater was burning in Poole’s room when he went to prepare supper for his family last evening. On going to the kitchen Poole found that the gas stove would not light, the gas having given out. He therefore restored the flow by inserting a coin in the meter.
In the meantime the heater in his bedroom had apparently gone out, unnoticed by Poole. He evidently then retired, forgetting the heater had not been turned off.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 61
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148SUFFOCATED BY GAS Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 61
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