Suffocated in a subterraneous place

An inquisition was taken on the bodies of two men near Leiston, who were suffocated in a subterraneous place, in which was concealed a large quantity of liquors. The men were master and servant, the former of whom first went in to take out some of the liquor, but not returning the latter followed him, and he also not returning, a third person attempted to enter, but was happily prevented by touching the feet of the servant, who had fallen down dead close to his master, and near the entrance of the place, which from  the emission of prodigious damps and foul air, appeared not to have been opened for a considerable time past.