A MINE OWNER AND SUFFOCATED.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12766, 7 February 1910, Page 2

A MINE OWNER AND SUFFOCATED.

Timaru, Feb. 5. Charles Ernest Riddle, proprietor of the Albury coal mine, entered the mine about four o'clock this morning to make preparations for the day's work, and was discovered by some of the miners about eight o'clock in an unconscious condition. Dr Cook, of Fairiie, was telephoned for, and efforts to restore animation were made, but without success. On the doctor's arrival he pronounced life extinct, and said that Riddle had been suffocated by the foul air in the mine.