DUNEDIN SENSATION.
THE SMALLPOX PATIENT’S LUGGAGE RIFLED.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, lasi, night.
.Since a lady passenger by flic Gracchus landed and developed symptoms which were afterwards pronounced to be smallpox, her luggage had been detained by the Health Department in V shed. Last night, someone broke into the shed, and .wait through the luggage. A good deal of personal effects were thrown over the wharf, and letters, photos., j.nd articles of attire were floating about this morning. Boxes containing the lady’s jewellery were not touched. It is supposed some boys must have broken into the shed. Whether they will develop smallpox remains to he seen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 914, 12 June 1903, Page 3
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