SLEEPING MAN SUFFOCATED
ROOM SLOWLY FILLED WITH GAS. BEDROOM HEATER FORGOTTEN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. To be suffocated in his sleep when Iris bedroom slowly filled with gas was the fate of a draper’s assistant, Mr. Harold Clement Poole, aged 39, who was found dead this morning by his wife in their flat. The circumstances are particularly distressing. Mr. Poole slept in a room by himself, his wife and little daughter occupying another room. A small gas heater was burning in Mr. Poole’s room when he went to prepare supper for his family last evening. On going to the kitchen lie 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 Mr. Poole. He evidently then retired, forgetting that the heater had not been turned off.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1931, Page 9
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