A Sad Death.
",: ■■• .- - » In Sydney recently a man named Michael Bowe was found about midnigjbt on the pavement in front of a public-house. He was allowed to lie until aome passers by raised him and placed him on a doorstep. This failing to revive him, the police were set in mqtion, and bo was taken to the Central Police-station and locked up as a drunkard. He was seen by the police an hour or two afterwards, and they went away satisfied that, as he was 'snoring loudly, ho must ' be sleeping soundly: At 6 o'clock it was noticed that something was wronjrwith him, and that "sleep was deepening into death. An hour and a-half : later the police surgeon attended, and" a few minutes after his arrival Bowe died. He died, according to the doctor's evidence, from compression of the brain, caused byj a fracture: of the skulk ' \
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 13, 10 July 1883, Page 3
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147A Sad Death. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 13, 10 July 1883, Page 3
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