ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
YOUTH POISONED. - (By telegraph—Per [press Association) BALCLUTHA, November 2. The Police advise that Leslie John Taylor, 19, whose parents live at Paretai, died yesterday afternoon after swallowing cyanide. Deceased with another youth was a fishing expedition and they visited an abandoned gold mining claim. Her? they found a bottle containing cyanide which Taylor tasted from curiosity, dying almost at once.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 6
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62ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 6
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