RACE AGAINST DEATH.
MAN SAVED FROM POISONINC
By Telegraph.—Press Association
Gisborne, Sept. 10.
A young man, aged 18, staggered into a shop yesterday afternoon and announced that he had taken poison. The astonished shopkeeper promptly communicated with the police, who secured a taxi, and made a race against death to. the hospital. The man said he had taken cyanide of potassium, and completely collapsed, but prompt attention produced a rapid recovery. His action was due to depression following influenza. His parents reside at Wairoa.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1926, Page 11
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