A RUMMY LIQUID
(pur press association.) Sydney, June 8. A number of-aboriginals of Fcrn-mi-unt drunk a bottle of poisonous liquid supplied by a man named John Kolly in the beliof that it was ram. Two gins have sinco died and four others are in a dangorou'! condition. Kolly has been arres'ed, ' Later. Three more of the aboriginals at Fornmouut who drank the decoction supplied to them by a man named Kelly in mistake for rum have succumbed, making five victims in all. At the inquest Kelly gave evidence that he obtained the bottle from a certain shop. He was intoxicated at the time, and believing the contents were ruin drank some himself and gave the blacks a drink. He himself suffered severely from what he had drunk.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8145, 10 June 1895, Page 2
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127A RUMMY LIQUID Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8145, 10 June 1895, Page 2
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