MORPHINE POISONING
MYSTERY AT INQUEST WELLINGTON, March 13. Returning a verdict of death from morphine poisoning at an inquqest today on Robert Heron, aged 53, fitter, who died at Wellington Hospital on January 31, the Coroner, Mr I. Salek, said there was no evidence regarding how or by whom the morphine had been administered.
Dr Bakowell, who attended Heron, said it was clear that morphia had got into the man's system somehow. How was a mystery. There was nothing in the prescription containing morphia and had he been left alone in the witness' surgery he could not have found any morphine tablets.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 81, 14 March 1931, Page 5
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