MYSTERIOUS DEATH FROM POISONING.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 13. Returning a verdict of death from morphine poisoning at an inquest today on Robert Heron, aged 53, fitter, who died in 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 Bakewell, who attended Heron, said it was clear morphia had got into the man’s system somehow. How, was a mystery. There was nothing in the prescripton containing morphia. Had he been left alone in witness’s surgery he could not have found any morphine tablets.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 62, 14 March 1931, Page 11
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