JAMES M'BRIDE’S DEATH
DUNEDIN, January 6.
The inquest on the death of James Mcßride was resumed to-day. Deceased was found lying at the back of a stable, in a dying condition, and said that his son-in-law, Thomas Broomfield, had knocked him about, and his daughter, Mrs Broomfield, had '‘prodded" him in
the stomach with a crutch. The iitquiry had, therefore, been adjourned for a post-mortem examination. On resuming to-day, the medical evidence showed that death was due to peritonitis. There was a rupture of the stomach, which - the doctor said could only be accounted for by the supposition of violence, direct or indirect. Thomas Henry Broomfield, son-in-law, and Mrs Broomfield, his daughter, gave evidence that deceased was violent and noisy on New Year’s Eve, and that he struck Broomfield, who did not retaliate. In attempting to strike him a second time, deceased fell on his stomach on a heap of stones. Mi's Broomfield, whose left arm is’ powerless, and who is a cripple, denied, touching deceased with a crutch. The jury returned a verdict that death was caused by peritonitis, the effect of rupture of the stomach, caused by violence, but how or by whom the violence was occasioned there was not sufficient evidence to show.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1611, 14 January 1903, Page 73 (Supplement)
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