AN ARTILLERYMAN POISONED.
While the members of the Permanent Artillery were at work at the forts yesterday morning one of the number, a young man named Bezar. was found in a very br.d Biate, stiff-r----ing from the effects of poison. Kmetics were administered, and he was subsequently brought across to tbe wharf in the s.s, Ellen Ballnr.ce, and thencd conveyed to the hospital, where he is now reported lo be considerably better. It was freely asserted yesterday that the case was one of ai tempted suicide, but tbe friends of the young man give a different version of the affair, They state that poison was being used to kill the rats, which abound at the forts, and that Brzar thoughtlessly put one of his fingers into the powder, and then, without thinking, put bis linger into his mouth, tbe result being, that he was immediately taken very ill. He himself, we are informed, denies that he hud any intention of taking his own Ilife.—JS.Z. Times.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 9 January 1894, Page 3
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165AN ARTILLERYMAN POISONED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 9 January 1894, Page 3
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