Accidents and Fatalities
Christchurch, March 21. At an inquest held on a boy, aged years, named James Beattie, who died from eating match-heads, the evidence went to show that the boy hud been in the habit of eating matches unknown to his mother. A verdict was given that death was due to phosphorus poisoning.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 3
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54Accidents and Fatalities Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 3
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