STRANGE FATALITY.
Per Press Association. Inglewood, last night. A young man named Bellamy, while walking down the mountain road in the cenne of the town this morning suddenly gave a scream and fell down, apparently in a fit, striking bis head against a doorstep in falling. He bled profusely from the mouth aDd nostrils, which appeared to bo asphyxiating him. Considerable difficulty was experienced in opening his mouth, when it was found that his false teeth were jammed in the throat. These were removed, but. all efforts at relief failed, and ho expired in a few minntes. To 'all appearance he was asphyxiated. The doctor has not yet given an opinion as to the part the teeth played in causing death.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 987, 5 September 1903, Page 4
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121STRANGE FATALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 987, 5 September 1903, Page 4
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