DEATH OF DR DIMOCK.
LONDON, December 3. The inquest showed that the death of Dr Dimock was duo to an overdose of morphine. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. I' * T In October, Dr Dimock, an insurance panel doctor, was remanded, on a charge of criminal libel, the information having been laid by the local chairman of the Medical Association. Dr Dimock wis subsequently found dead in his bed. Two thousand sym--pathisers. on bearing the news, engaged in a demonstration, and smashed the window* of the houses of the chairman and of another doctor. As the disturbances continued, police reinforcements were summoned by the local authorities.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 25
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