MISADVENTURE.
DEIiTISrS TRAGIC DEATH.
EXPERIMENTING AXONS. '
OVERCOME BY GAS. '
18/ Telegraph.—Press Association^ WAXGAXUI, this day. The coroner found to-day that tk death of William Walter Bramwell, a well-known dentist, who was found it a chair in his surgery on October Jl, was due to misadventure.
Medical evidenoe showed that Hamwell frequently experimented with various anaesthetics, as he was preparing & thesis for his exam, for the degree of doctor of dental surgery. He made an appointment that evening to go to a concert with his partner after the latter had been to a meeting. It is surmised that Bramwel] was experimenting with nitrons oxide oxygen, when the oxygen cylinder gxve out, and that he got a whiff of nitnxu oxide, which rendered him helpless to turn off the gas.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 263, 6 November 1928, Page 10
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