A FATAL TIN
("Post" Special Correspondent.)
AUSTRALIAN DROVERS TAKE A WAYSIDE DRINK A POISONED TIN
Perth, Saturday. Drinking from a petrol tin, which they found alongside the track whilc droving through dry country, Aubrey Hall, and two natives, Balby and Teddy Edwards, were poisoned. Edwards died and the others are in a bad way. They were travelling from Quobba Station with 1000 head of sheep, and regarded what they thought was p. tin full of water as a great find. They drank from the tin and watered their dogs and horses. Shortly afterwards they all became sick. The dogs died first, and then the horses. Edwards became rapidly worse than the other men and died. What the tin contained or why it was left alongside the track is at present unknown.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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131A FATAL TIN Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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