Four Deaths at Christchurch
. [PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCrATION.I Chki.si'OHl'RCH. February 6. No fewer than four sudden deaths occurred around Christchurch yesterday. An infant child of Thomas , Shields, of Broadfield, died suddenly at 1.30 a.m., and shortly after the the three- j'ear-old daughter of Thomas Arrowsmith, of Sydenham, died before a doctor could be fetched. At 7 p,.m., Mrs Sophia Smith, an old widow residing at Linwood, was found by her son in a dying state in her room at 8 p.m. Hannah Lee, an elderly Woman living at St. Albans, was I found dying by a neighbor. She had been drinking heavily of late. — _M3a—— — a—
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 91, 8 February 1887, Page 3
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106Four Deaths at Christchurch Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 91, 8 February 1887, Page 3
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