DEATH FROM VIOLENCE
DENIALS OF SON IN-LAW AND DAUGUTJ3B.
By Telegraph—Tress Association. Dunedin, last night. ' The adjourned inquest touching the death of James Mcßride was resumed toTeo medical evidenco showed that death was due to peritonitis. There was a rupture of the stomach, which the doctor said could only bo accounted for by tho supposition ot violence direct or indirect. Thomas Honry Broomfield, deceased s son-in-law, and Mrs Broomfield, daughter, gave evidence that deceased was violent and noisy on New Year's Eve; that he struck Broomfield, who did not retaliate; in attempting to strike him a second time deceased fell on his stomach on a heap of stones. Mrs Broomfield, whoso left arm is poworloss, and who is a cripple, denied touohing deceased with a crutch. Tne jury returned a verdict that death was caused by peritonitis, tho offeot of rupture of the Btomach caused by violence, but how or by whom the violence was occasioned there was not sufficient evidence to show.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 712, 7 January 1903, Page 3
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163DEATH FROM VIOLENCE Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 712, 7 January 1903, Page 3
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