CURIOUS CASE
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
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AUCKLAND, July 25
A charge of manslaughter against George Alexander Roweon, aged 30, a warehouseman, formerly employed by the New Zealand Drug Company, was thrown out hy the grand jury at the Supreme Couort. The charge arose 1 from the death from strychnine poisoning of Charles Boddy after he had taken the drug. In the charge to the grand jury Mr Justice Herdman referred to the case as curiouu. The man (deceased) arranged with TRe Drug Company to be supplied with slippery elm bark but, unfortunately he was supplied instead with mix. vomica, which was some sort of strychnine. The man took some of it with the result that he died. The allegation was that Rowson had been guilty of negligence in supplying this harmful drug.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1933, Page 5
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135CURIOUS CASE Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1933, Page 5
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