MAYOR'S COURT.
This Day (Before his Worship the Mayor, and E. B. Cargill, Esq., J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS. John Harrison and Archibald Bannatyne were each fined 5ss, and Francis H. Malloch, who did not appear, had his bail forfeited. -Evening Star, 16/8/1870.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
THE Friends of the late Francis H. Malloch are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the Cemetery. The Funeral to move from his late residence, Maitland street, THIS DAY, at 3 o'clock.
J. & SPICER, Undertaker, George street, near Red House. -Otago Daily Times, 30/8/1870.
An inquest was held at Crone's Hotel, Maitland street, yesterday afternoon, on the body of Francis H. Malloch, aged 34 years, and late a clerk in the Bank of Otago, who was found dead in bed on Sunday at noon. It appeared that he had purchased an ounce of laudanum from Mr Reid, chemist, on Saturday last. Dr Alexander, who made the postmortem examination, said he was unable to detect the presence of laudanum in the stomach, as decomposition had set in, but from the general appearance of the body, coupled with the evidence he had heard, he came to the conclusion that the deceased had poisoned himself by taking laudanum. The jury returned a verdict of "Self destruction." -Otago Daily Times, 30/8/1870.
Francis Malloch was presumably buried in Dunedin's southern Cemetery, but the Council records contain no mention of him.
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