CHOKED BY TEETH.
BATHER’S STRANGE DEATH.
(By Telegraoh.—Press Associntlr.n.) GREYMOUTH, Sunday.
A fatality occurred in Lake Brunner this afternoon, the victim being Mr. John Arthur Kelleher, aged 33, a sawmill employee, a native of Southland. Accompanied by his wife and a boy, Noel Dowell, deceased sauntered along the bank of the lake and then went in alone for a bathe, but got into difficulties in a deep place. His wife, a non-swimmer, tried to reach him, but was unable to do so, ( and he disappeared. Half an hour later a young, man, Mr. John Hib'bs, dived and brought the body ashore. A doctor found that Mr. Kelleher had been choked through the lop .plate of his artificial teeth lodging in his gullet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19430, 3 December 1934, Page 7
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