WAS HE DRUGGED?
FIREMAN'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH. tßy TelejrflDh.—Press Association.J CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. At the inquest into the death of Charles Clarke, aged 32 years, a fireman on the steamer Whangape, who died in the Christehurch Hospital on Sunday, Dr. C. J. Campbell, senior house surgeon at the Christehurch Hospital, said the deceased was admitted to the hospital in a semi-conscious condition. A detailed examination failed to give any clue to his exact complaint. His condition did no' alter, and the doctors were at a loss to decide what was wrong with him. It had occurred to witness he might have been drugged. He died early on Sttndav morning. Dr. Reay, house surgeon, corroborated the evidence of the previous witness. The condition of the deceased, he said, was consistent with drugging. William Munday, fireman on the steamer Kaikoura, said the deceased waß a single man. He was a returned soldier, and had been gassed. Since his return he had not been in good health. As a post-mortem operation had failed to show the cause of death, a microscopical examination of the brain will be made. 'Ihe inquest was accordingly adjourned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 115, 17 May 1922, Page 15
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188WAS HE DRUGGED? Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 115, 17 May 1922, Page 15
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