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That the deceased, Mr. Wm. Owen, Esq,. died from taking a large quantity of
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labelled the two bottles wrongly and as a result Owen took a fatal dose of the opium-based medicine, dying hours later. At the inquest on 13 March 1825 the following verdict was reached by the jury:
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