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Surname
ROWE
Forename
Ernest
Day
28
Month
07
Year
1909
Age
32
Occupation
Chemical Assayer
Mine/Quarry Name
Dolcoath
Mineral Worked
Tin
Owner
Dolcoath Mine Ltd
Location
Camborne
County
Cornwall
Details of Event
When alone in the Assay Office he appears to have had a fit of some kind, resulting in the breakage of bottles containing acids. He was found next morning on the floor dead, his body in places being more or less burned with acids. The presumption is that he died from shock resulting from the effects of injuries caused by the acids while in a fit. It is not outside possibility that he died from the fit itself and that the acids affected the body after death. He was not known to be subject to fits by his family.