A Shocking Death.
A shocking;death is recorded by .the Wair arapa Star . <■ On Tuesday, 12tl J.qoe, aman named, John M'Mahon' wai admitted to the Masterton Hospital suffering ftom severe barns. . ■; He had been holding a periodical dehauch at the Taneru, and being m a half-cranky Uate from drink, he; rolled, ont of his I bank .into the fireplace. ' One^of the occupants of the whare a*oke to fiai him slowly roasting on his tight side: his right arm and tbigh and back of his i left hand being badly scorched . " £fter \ hisuadmuion to the^ hospital his arnj | was fobnd to be so; far cooked thaLonj i being fiskiii and^esh frorfl.-thi i shoulder to the wrist fell /off ; fto^ettoe'r? Subsequently symptoms of delirium, tremenß themselves, and on duuday morning the unfortunate man . died, '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 171, 25 June 1883, Page 3
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131A Shocking Death. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 171, 25 June 1883, Page 3
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