Narrow Escape.
(UNITIjp^BES^} ASSOCIATION.) A.^ '* W^LLroGTON *Tn*es!j|y. MrMcEwen, of the firm of McEwen, Brown, . and -^itjfo,. narrowly escajjed deatli»thrpggl| cpa] gas h!st|eyen[ng£ JMV ! owing to the arrival ot'some friends, vacated his bedroom m favour - of the victors',^ : 'aisd'o f cfctipied'Jasbedf»^n t l the sofa m the dining-room.- . Thisriiora- • ing at daybreak Mm'Mic^wen^fatftrfdirifc >i 1p meet her .inothe^ovhpiWas expected to arrive by an early steamer, went into the dining-room, where, she found ,her t husband m a comatose, state,^senseleMsl ~ " and •■ all but dead." An' ! investigation showed that the tap of the gasalier m the diiiing-rootn'had been left open,' .and; .hence the cause of what so nearly proved to : be a fatality. The . services of a merticaJ ; ;mu,as wei^ ay i aifod. ( .qf, ,and Me , McEwen soon restored to consciousness.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1481, 15 October 1885, Page 2
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128Narrow Escape. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1481, 15 October 1885, Page 2
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