ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
THE TRAGIC ARREST IN DTJNEDIN. (bt r*LiattiP=.-3PKctAi. cnnßEsmsnßST.l Dunedin, March 5. Samuel Campbell, tho one-armed man, who was picked up by the police as a supposed lnobnato, and lay for days in a stupor, dying last night, was at ono time a night watchman at Wellington. (BI TELEGRAPH—PKKSa ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, March 5. Tho death of Samuel Campbell, who was picked up in an unconscious condition on Monday night and lodged in tho police cells, and who died i); the hospital yesterday, was made tho subject of an exhaustive inquiry to-day. The eyidenco showed that deceased was much addicted to drink. A constable, who knew him in Wellington, said that ho could consume an enormous quantity of liquor which would have no visible effect. The medical evidence showed that death was duo to hemorrhage of the brain, which would, at first, produce a condition not easily distinguishable from drunkenness, particularly if the sufferer had boon drinking. A verdict was returned in accordance with-the medical evidence, tho police being corapletob" exonerated.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 5
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172ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 5
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