AUCKLAND MAN ASPHYXIATED

Patea Mail, 26 August 1931, Page 4

AUCKLAND MAN ASPHYXIATED

1 01OTT 17 N 15 L-: DR 00 M HR AT MU. ROOM SI.OW'LV i’I.HLMD WITH CAS To be se.lVocaled in his .deep when his bedroom slowly filled wit It gas was the fate cf a draper’s assistant, Air. Harold Clement I’oole, aged gp, who was found dead on Sunday morning bv his wife in their Hat. The emmmstancesi are particularly distressing. .Mr. I’uole slept in a room bv himself, his wife and little daughter occupying a not her room. A small ga; heater was burning in Mr. .Poole’s rieiiii when he went to prepare supper for his family. On going to the kitchen he found that, the gas stove would md linlit, the gas having given out. He therefore restored the How by inserting a coin in the meter. In the meantime the heater in his bedroom had apparently gone out unnoticed liy Mr. Poele. lie evidently then retired, forgetting that the healer had not been turned olf.