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Inquest.

--The jury of inquest that examined the body of Preston C. Bozelle, late member of the President's Guard, who died on Wednesday, as it was thought, from the effect of poison administered by mistake, assembled on the evening of Wednesday at the hospital, corner of Henry and Clay streets, and heard the evidence, after which they returned a verdict that he came to his death by a disease unknown to the jury. It was in proof that the deceased had complained for several days of illness, and had obtained a very small quantity of laudanum or other opiate to induce sleep, but there was nothing to show that it caused his death, or was wrongfully administered. Deceased had said to one of the witnesses that he had been in former years subject to fits, and had been ruptured. The exposure incident to a soldier's life may have, and no doubt did, burry him off.

The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 11, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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