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David C. Dow, Cambridge Medical Examiner, disclosed last night that Walter A. Pollano '50 died in his Adams House room from an overdose of sleeping pills last Tuesday. A new death certificate will be signed listing "suicide while depressed...
After a week of investigation at the Medical School, analysts last night detected "poisoning by a barbiturate," common ingredient in easily purchased sleeping tablets, as the cause for Pollano's death. Dow explained that such tablets can often be bought without doctor's prescriptions at many drug stores...
...Legal Medicine for a careful check following his autopsy last Tuesday night. The analysis was rushed by Alan R. Mortiz, Francis Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, and last night he and Dow made a final examination in which they specified the "barbiturate poisoning" as direct cause for death...
Anthony G. Scott '50, Pollano's room-mate in Adams F-21 explained last night that he had never known Pollano to take pills of any sort. The night before his death, Pollano had been studying past midnight and apparently had taken the tablets while worried about exams and depressed by his failure to be accepted at a medical school...
...evidence came to light yesterday in the Medical School's investigation of last Tuesday's death of Walter A. Pollano '50 in Adams House Tuesday, Dr. Alan R. Moritz, Chairman of the Department of Legal Medicine, said last night...