AN UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANT.
HOPELESS DIPSOMANIAC,
By Telegraph—Pross Association. Wellington, last night. An inquest was bold to-day od tho body of John Taylor Gordon, a tourist, aged 82 years, who died at tho Occidental Hotel on Wednesday. Tho evidonco showed that doceasod was a hopeless dipsomaniac. He had boon sent out from England by friends in tho hope that the travol would euro him of tho disease. Ho had admitted to a medical man that ho had taken largo quantities of alcohol unknown to his frionds. Twontyfour empty whisky bottles wore found in his bedroom. A verdict of death from acute alcoholism was returned, with a rider that no blame bo attached to tho liconsoo of tho hotel whore tho death occurred.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 802, 17 January 1903, Page 3
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121AN UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANT. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 802, 17 January 1903, Page 3
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