KILLED BY WHISKY.
, .... * ♦ —- (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, Oct. 24. Evidence at the inquest on James Gordon, found dead on tho road near Waikare, showed that the deceased and his mate drank a bottle and a half of whisky neat in two hours. A verdict was returned that death was due to suffocation through falling face downwards in the mud, whilst in a state of helpless intoxication.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 25 October 1912, Page 7
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