SWALLOWED A BOTTLE.
A case which the coroner described as the most extraordinary in his long experience was the subject of an inquest at Grimsby on Robert .Shields, n naval petty officer. The widow said her husband woke her tip in the morning saying he had swallowed a bottle. He was taken to the hospital, where he told the surgeon thai he had a glass bottle inside hint, but he did not {jive any definite explanation of what, had occurred. An operation was performed, and a glass sauce bottle was removed. He bore the. operation well, but gangrene supervened and caused death. "Death from misadventure" the verdict.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 12 April 1920, Page 4
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107SWALLOWED A BOTTLE. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 12 April 1920, Page 4
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