INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
I.PBB UNITED PREB9 ASSOCIATION. Timaru, August 23. A man named Edwin Best, a tailor, died early this morning from an overdose of chloroiiyne, He had been drink ing heavily of late, and last night purchased, or had purchased for hint, three bottles of chlorodyne, which he took and swallowed. He was conveyed to the hospital, where everything possible was done, but without avail. Best had been several times before the Court lately for failing to maintain his wife and family. He state.! that through her going to the Salvation Army his h«me had become a little " hell on earth."
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 32, 25 August 1885, Page 2
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