GAS POISONING.
PLUMBER’S DEATH. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) GREYIMOUTH, Sunday. A tragedy was revealed on Saturday evening in the shop on Mawliera Quay, Greymouth, of Charles Edward Larsen, plumber, aged 54, who had been missing since 3.30 o’clock in 'the afternoon. His foreman, George McGirr, learning of his disappearance, went at 8 p.m. to the shop, -which lie found full of gas fumes. He noticed a gas tube leading to beneath a new tank. He lifted ihe tank to find beneath it Larsen’s dead body, with gas issuing from the tube. Larsen, owing to ill-health and other worries, had latterly been despondent. He leaves a wife and family of eight children, the eldest aged seventeen.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 May 1927, Page 5
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