EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.
Dujtedik, April 3.
George Smith, a gardener, died on Sunday under extraordinary circumstances. Last Tuesday, while at work lifting the coffin of Dr. Hulme, for the purpose of depositing it in a vault, he received a slight scratch from the point of a fellow workman's spade, which was wet with decryed matter exuding from the coffin. No attention waa pnid to the bruise at fir-t, hut on Thursday symptoms of blood poisoning exhibited themselves, and after suffering indescribable agony, Smith died on Sunday. Decomposition set in rapidly, the body of deceased becoming immediately black.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 294, 3 April 1877, Page 2
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