FOUND DEAD IN BED.
(By Telegraph, Auckland, Monday, i. At the inquest on llio body ot' Oxley, found diyid in bed at the Hospital, tlio evidence showed that (or twenty years deceased; bad, inken large quantity of morpliia for the pnroose of allaying j rlienmntio, pains,i • The post . mortem examination shovid the cause «t death to be fatty, degeneration nf the hear!. .pI'CCBBr(I wasa. pensioner ot the Hos|iiiftl/rwiifiiig 2a a week. ,' The medical officer said " that. deceased took 80 gr.oiw ot morphia in n'dese, but did not g-tit at tlm Ifivpiial. ;Two wit. ni'sses that hid 1 emi summoned were out of.towiii Tho jiii'Tß, thooght this ■.wasj/s:range arid stated thai; manj; things were nor. understood, but they nit iik tobcfnt'P tliiygavo averdict,aiid S'ljilthatif tliii 'leceasedjiadhceu in tli.r habit "f tuki'i.v 30 grains of morphia ■it :ihun ed ulu-t the poison could be !)•: on.sily obtained, mid the matter must bo sc. n into. The inquest was adjourned,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4419, 15 May 1893, Page 3
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156FOUND DEAD IN BED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4419, 15 May 1893, Page 3
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