PTOMAINE POISONING
RESULT OF INQUEST.
(Per Pre3a Association.) Dunedin, last night.
The adjourned inquest in regard to the deaths of Thomas Trudgeon and Walter Riddell, who died in the hospital from supposed ptomaine poisoning, was resumed te-day. Mr G. M. Thomson and Dr Blaok, who analysed tins of tongues from the same lot as those which had been partaken of by Young, gavo evidence that they had failed to find any trace of poisonous ptomaines. Both wore confident that if there had been any thoy would have detected them fay the process used. Dr Black also tried to find other poisons, but failed to get a trace. He had no hesitation in partaking of some of the tongues without the slightest illeffects.
In tho case cf Trudgeon the jury returned a verdict that death was due to ptomaine poisoning, but there was no evidenoe to show where the poison came from.
In the. ease of Riddell, the evidence in the previous case haying been read over, the Gear Meat Company’s expert was offered as a witness, but the coroner said there was no need to take his evidence. The jury returned a verdict that the cause of death was poisoning, but what, was the nature of tho poison and bow it originated there was not sufficient evidence to show.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1380, 15 February 1905, Page 2
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