(Death from natural causes)
Shanghai, Jan._17.
'A verdict of death from natural causes was returned by Mr. I. T. Morris, Acting Coroner, at "an Inquest held in H.M. Court yesterday on the body of Ranjit Singh, an Indian watchman employed by the Shing Wu cotton mill, 110 Seoul Road, who died in the General Hospital after being. discovered in an. unconscious condition in his Quarters at the mill on January Chinese and Indian witnesses testified how they had discovered the man lying unconscious in his room after they had broken the glass in the door because the room had been locked from the inside. After forcing an entrance they failed to arouse the man and a doctor was summoned. The latter, the Chinese mill doctor, had given Ranjit Singh 8 camphor injection.
Dr. 1. G. Anderson, who examined the man at the General Hospital, stated that a camphor injection given to a man in his condition at" the time would have no effect.
It would not prolong his life,
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