DENTIST FOUND DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 259, 1 November 1928, Page 27

DENTIST FOUND DEAD.

SITTING IN SURGERY CHAIR.

BT ANAESTHETIC.

EXPERIMENTING ON HIMSELF?

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WANGANUI, Wednesday.

A well-known dental surgeon of Wanganui, Mr. W. W. Bramwell, was found dead in his surgery shortly before nine o'clock to-night, by his partner, Mr. A. IL Boyes. He was seated in one of the chairs, in front of which was an apparatus ' ' for administering anaesthetics. The cylinder was empty. Bramwell, who was about 28 years of age and unmarried, had been in practice in Wanganui for six or seven years, and was highly skilled in his profession. His parents reside in Feilding, where he received part of his schooling. Later he went to Wellington College, and thence to the Otago University, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery. He was a most brilliant and enthusiastic student, and at the time of his death was studying for the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, for which be was preparing a thesis on anaesthesia. Mr. Boyes stated to-night that his partner frequently returned to the surgery at night to conduct experiments, and his explanation of the tragedy is that Bramwell was experimenting on himself for the purpose of studying;the effects of anaesthetics, and that consciousness left him before he realised the necessity of cutting off the supply. Bramwell had taken a prominent part in athletic sport and was captain of the Wanganui Harrier Club and club captain of the Wanganui Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club.