The Dunedin Poisoning Case

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VI, Issue 1633, 16 May 1906, Page 2

The Dunedin Poisoning Case

Coroner's Inquest

Bj Telftjriph.-Prett Auotiation. Ddnkdin, this day. Yestkrday tho inquest was resumed oon oorning tho death of Archibald McKaywbo, with a fellow-worker named Audor ?on, died from tho effects of poisoning, MoKay's wife said ho told her ho had been mixing at tho comont works some aoid in a cask and burning the zinc oil somo wire Dotting, and bad inhaled the fumos,

Dr. Evans said ho was of opinion that death was duo to poison circulating in tho blood,

Dr. Roberts, pathologist at tho Dunodin hospital, said U porformort a postmortem examination of tho body of tho late John Giltnan Anderson. Tho examination was Eiado not by order oi tho Court, but as a matter of scientific interest, The functions of the man's kidnoys, ho said, had been almost entiroly abolished, and that would load to doath from sooondary poisoning of tho system. Professor Black statos that ho cloarjfd oortain bottlos for the post mortem ex» animation, Thoy contaiuod differont parts of tho body. Ho found arsonic in the livor, lungs, aud kidneys, Aftor othtr oyidenco had beon given tho inquest wbb adjourned,