ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DEATH FROM PTOMAINE POISON
(Per Press Association.' 'AUCKLAND, August 9. "Mrs Wilson, wife of J. M ilson, dairy inspector at Paeroa, eat tinned salmon at dinner on Friday. In the evening, after drinking a cup of cocoa, she was seized with severe illness. The usual remedies were applied, but she died on Saturday morning. FALL FROM A HORSE. FEILDING, August 9. A young man, George Cheync, living at Utnwai, was riding after sheep yesterday, when his horse slipped. Cheyne was thrown. He was picked up in on unconscious state, and when the doctor arrived life was extinct. A DETERMINED SUICIDE. WAIPAWAj August 9. The body of James Sinclair Logan, single, aged 31, who had been missing since Thursday, was found in a creek near Tamumu on Saturday afternoon. He had tied his feet with rope- and his hands with wire, and slid into the water. A verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity was returned. Ho was an inmate of a mental hospital some years ago.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2576, 10 August 1909, Page 4
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172ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2576, 10 August 1909, Page 4
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