Talk:Fred Bullock (footballer)

Date of death from Doug Lamming's England Who's Who and the Manchester Guardian 16 Nov 1922. The Daily Express says a day later, but Bullock was already dead the day before, as the Guardian proves:

D Express 17 Nov 1922: headline POISON CUP MYSTERY. Sub-head FOOTBALLER KILLED BY A DRAUGHT OF AMMONIA. Sub-head under that: CORONER'S DOUBT. ' "Ammonia! Ammonia! A great mistake!" This was the reply which the wife of Frederick Bullock, formerly captain of Huddersfield Town football team and an English full-back, received from her husband when she found him ill on the floor last Thursday evening. A bottle of ammonia was by his side. Mrs. Bullock, who gave this evidence at the inquest here to-day, stated that Bullock had no reason for worry. Bullock was taken to the infirmary, and died yesterday [No.] from collapse following the effects of ammonia. The medical evidence was that he was a strong man, or he would have died in two days. He must have swallowed half a cupful of strong ammonia. A verdict that death was due to heart failure consequent on ammonia was returned. The coroner said he did not think that Bullock could have taken ammonia by accident, and when he spoke of it being a great mistake he realised that it was a very great mistake on his part to have done it at all.' Manchester Guardian 16 Nov 1922: 'Frederick Bullock, formerly captain of the Huddersfield Town football team and an international full back, died at the Huddersfield Infirmary yesterday from poisoning. Last Thursday he was found on the floor of the Slubbers' Arms, Huddersfield, of which he was the licensee, with an empty bottle of ammonia by his side.'

Cris Freddi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.3.81 (talk) 21:44, 6 February 2012 (UTC)