AUCKLAND INQUEST.
VERDICT DELIVERED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 9. A verdict that Sidney John Anderson, aged 47, a motoi mechanic, died in the Auckland Hospital on February 17, and that death was caused bv veronal and opium poisoning, associated with toxaemia arising from cancer of the bowel, such veronal and opium having been administered to alleviate suffering and not with intent to kill, was returned by the Coroner (Mr AVyvern Wilson) at the conclusion of the inquest to-day. The Coroner said he understood veronal had been placed on the list of dangerous drugs. Detective-Sergeant AValsh said he understood it had been placed on the list from April 1 this year, but he had not verified the fact. The Coroner said that a week before Anderson’s death the cancer was beyond the aid of operative science. He felt convinced deceased would not have died of cancer on the Monday morning, but would have lingered much longer. The attitude of the law. in such circumstances was that no person was permitted to accelerate the death of a person who was dying. No person had the legal right to accelerate Anderson’s death.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 111, 11 April 1936, Page 3
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190AUCKLAND INQUEST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 111, 11 April 1936, Page 3
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