SOLDIER ASPHYXIATED
IN HOUSE THAT WAS BEING FUMIGATED. Private Murdoch M'lver, of the 18thi Reinforcements, who did. not get away with that body, and was to have gone with a subsequent reinforcement, was found dead at No. 35 Thorndon Quay, yesterday afternoon, where ho wag staying. It seems that M'lver got out of bed* and left the house. _ During his absence the house was being fumigated, and was looked up for the purpose. M'lver returned to the place later, and evidently got inside through a back window, which he managed to open. ' Ho was found jying with his head on his arm on a tin box close to the window. The police were sent for, and on the arrival of a constable M'lver was brought out into the fresh air. Dr. Faulke, who arrived shortly afterwards, pronounced life extinct. The body was removed to the morgue. M'lver was evidently asphyxiated by the fumes of hydro-cyanic which was being used for the fumigation. An inquest will be held.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2930, 16 November 1916, Page 4
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167SOLDIER ASPHYXIATED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2930, 16 November 1916, Page 4
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