GEORGE HUTTON
GEO. HUTTON DROPPED DEAD
Expired Suddenly in Local Hotel
Body Found in Sitting Posture by one of the Bartenders
[Welland Telegraph, 22 March 1912]
George Hutton, for a number of years a resident of Welland, dropped dead in a rear room just off the bar of the Welland House on Wednesday afternoon.
Hutton had been drinking for some time, and it believed that he was under the influence of liquor on Wednesday afternoon. He purchased a a drink at the bar and later went into the back room. About an hour and a half later the wine clerk went to arouse him and made the horrible discovery that the man was dead. His body was in a sitting posture.
Deceased is survived by a widow and two children. He was about forty years of age.
Died: 20 March 1912
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