A Dreadful Death

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 27, 6 March 1884, Page 3

A Dreadful Death

FKIGHTFUL C(T SEQUENCES OF DKINK. To-day's Chronicle says : — A death under very •hocking circumstances was reported to the police yesterday. It appears that a man named Brown, who was always known to be fond of drink, received from Home a few months ago the sum of £500. On the receipt of the money he and his wife at once commenced a persistent course of heavy drinking. T'tey dnily consumed enormous quanti ties of beer, which appears to have been latterly what they principally lived on. Yesterdaj Mr Buck, a cooper, called at Brown's cottage, and having knocked and received no answer, opened the door andw.ent in. . He found Brown lying on the floor oitht brdrobm, and his wife on4n«hedin.a*tateof ma<i drunkenness, and une/MWcious of the miserable fate which had overtaken her husband.. The rooms were in a state of 61th which beggars description, Mr Bock immediatelx4(a.ve information to the police, who hadihewoman removed to the Hospital, thif morning an inquest will be held on '«he bddy of Brown, when all the hideous jartioulirrof the c*a* *M }» *roaght