LAUDANUM POISONING.
[bv telegraph.— association.] Donedin, Monday. John Nicholas Brodie, aged 30, an unmarried man, died in the hospital from the effects of laudanum poisoning. He had been drinking heavily on Saturday, when he bought two ounces of laudanum and drank the whole of it. Ab the inquest a verdict was returned thab deceased poisoned himself while of unsound mind, and a rider was added thab in the jury's opinion the chemist had failed to exercise sufficient care in giving the laudunum.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10433, 4 May 1897, Page 5
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