y collected £5. „—th from tuberculosis of the lungs and a secondary abscess of the brain was tlio verdict returned by Mr W. h. Biddoll, coroner, yesterday afternoon in connection with the death of David Henry Tobin. Deceased was a wharf labourer thirty-seven years of age, who, on the 17th inst., was admitted to the >s,pital sufferinit from a, self-inflicted Lillet wound in the head. lie progressed satisfactorily under troatment until Wednesday nisrht, btit then developed a pressure on the motor area of the brain, and died early yesterday morning. The medical evidence shewed that the boll wound could not have been the can of death. For six years past the detion, and three years ago h an accident which unfitted n in the hospital for treatment, and on the 15th inst. he was discharged at his own request. Two days later he was readmitted after the attempt to shoot him-
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7038, 28 January 1910, Page 4
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