CORONER'S INQUEST.
An inquest was held this afternoon by Mr E. C. Cutten. S.M.. concerningg the death of a man named Henry Pickford. aged abont 50. who was found dead in a Federal Street boarding-house yesterday afternoon. Dr Girdler. who made tbe post mortem, said the cause of death was pneumonia, aud the man had evidently been a heavy drinker. There was some talk of chlorodvne. hut witness could not find any trace of it.
I Pnrvia Graham. boarding-house-j keeper, said he had known deccaeed ■since December, and understood he fortmerly w-orked on the Stratford line, and I had at one time been a chemist in the South If land. He had not worked fdnce j December, but intended going back to JStratford in the summer. About 0 a.m. ■yesterday a small bottle of ■'lorodyne j was purchased, as he was sufrerinn' from idvfientrv.
A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 178, 28 July 1913, Page 7
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