NEW. ZEALAND CASUALTIES.
Per Press Association. Dunedin, January 16. Frank • Oliver, 50 years of age, was taken ill* in. t High, street this afternoon and died before reaching the hospital. BTe<l]Lad' suffered' from heart disease Ifor^some time. ' -' - , I. Wellington, January 19. ' 'An. -inquest was held, to-day, on the body of" John Taylor Gordon, a tourist,- aged 32. years, . who died at tho Ojbcidental Hotel \on WedneaJay. ,Bvi.dVnce ' showed -that deceased was a helpless dipsomaniac. ,He liad" been gent out fcom England "by friends, in therhope that .tttravel -would, cure., him oi the (disease. He had admitted to a medical man that he had taken large cfuantities* of alcohol unknown tp, .his mends, 24 empty whiskey bottles being , fo.uiKl in.--h)s bedroom./ A verdicts of death, from , aqute, alcoholism was returned, with a rider that no blame was attachable to the hotel licensee. , . " , -
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12198, 17 January 1903, Page 5
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141NEW. ZEALAND CASUALTIES. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12198, 17 January 1903, Page 5
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