A Martyr to a Good Cause.
(own correspondent.) Timaru, Monday. A man named Edwin Best, a tailor, died yesterday morning from an overdose of choloridine. He had been ? drinking heavily of late, and on Saturday purchased,’ or caused to be purchased for him, three bottles of choloridine, which he swallowed. He was conveyed to the Hospital, where everything possible was done, but without avail. Best had been several times before the Court lately for failing to support his wife and family, and on the last occasion he stated that through his wife going to the Salvation Army his home had become a little “hell on earth.”
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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 25 August 1885, Page 2
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106A Martyr to a Good Cause. Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 25 August 1885, Page 2
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