ANOTHER LYSOL VICTIM
According to Dr. \V. K. P'yfFe, at the inquest on James Bourke at* the Wellington Morgue (Dr. McArthur, City Coroner, presiding), deceased's stomach contained probably four ounces of lysol. The cause of death, ho said, was snycope, duo to lysol poisoning. Deceased «as an emaeiated old man (lie was 63 years of age). Convicted of drunkenness at the Mount Cook Police Court on Friday morning, Bourke was taken to gaol, collapsed on arrival, and died shortly after. None of the gaol and Mount Cook police officials knew that deceased hod taken Ivsol, and had no idea where ho could have obtained it. None was kept at Mount Cook, and the officer that conducted Bourke to the gaol stated that deceased was never out of his sight, and had -nothing of the kind on him. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony. The Coroner added that the lysol was yell-administered, but there was no evidence a?; to where deceased obtained it.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10621, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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166ANOTHER LYSOL VICTIM Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10621, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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