ACCIDENTAL POISONING.
[ This morning a man named Henry Le ! Mercier, residing in Gloucester street : Bast, died from the effects of an overdose 'of chloral. He had been a sufferer from ■ sleeplessness for some considerable time, and had been in the habit of taking chloral as a remedy. This morning he procured a bottle, the whole of the contents of which he appears to have taken, for when found dead by one of his sons at half-past one, the bottle was quite empty. Dv Prins was ! sent for, but life had then been extinct for | some time. Le Mercier was a draper, but latterly has not followed his occupation. He was forty-five years of age, and leaves | a grown-up family. I
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7079, 3 February 1891, Page 3
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