THE WELLINGTON FATALITY.
CORONER’S INQUEST AND RIDER.
£PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.J WELLINGTON, June 21. The inquest on the body of Charles Brown, a laborer, who was found dead in the Lambton Quay police colts on Sunday evening, was concluded to-day. The verdict was that deceased died from the effects of arsenic poison selfadministered. “I desire,” concluded the coroner, “to add by way of rider that the evidence has shown me distinctly that the police took every care of the man while he was in their custody, and did all they' eould for him, and there is no blame in any way attachable to them. They expended every care over him.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3251, 23 June 1911, Page 3
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109THE WELLINGTON FATALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3251, 23 June 1911, Page 3
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