TALHAIARN`S DEATH REPORT
Caernarfon & Denbigh Herald Sat 23 Oct 1869

This week we have the melancholy duty of recording the death of one of our most popular national Bards 'Talhaiarn' who died at 'Hafod y Gan' LLanfairTalhaiarn on saturday morning after a severe illness, he had for many years suffered from the most painful malady, the gout and latterly had been afflicted with a dangerous internal disease.Mr Robert Davies the attending surgeon said "I am in practice at LLanfairTalhaiarn and a member of the royal college of surgeons . I have attended to the deceased professionally for the last three years when he came to live to the area and at the time his death was in very precarious state.He has periodically consulted me over the last 20 years prior to his moving permanently to the area. During the last three years his health had gradually deteriorated with no hope of a permanent cure. He was a matyr to the gout as well as other internal maladies described, which were the cause of the delusions and the morbid secretions being absorbed into the brain which consequently poisend the brain .That is my opinion judging from the symptoms already stated. I looked upon the deceased as a dying man for some time previous to the occurance of the ninth instant when i was called to attend the deceased.I found him on the bed, the time was 8 o' clock. By examination of the deceased's head i found a mark of a wound from a shot which was on the right ear . I did not see much blood. Upon re-examination i found a bullet on the right uper cheek bone, the bullet had enterd through the right ear and stuck against the thick part of the temple bone which made a curve of two or three inches along the bone, and came very near to the direction where it first enterd, and lodged in a very strong part of the superior cheek bone. Near the right eye the bullet was extracted by me on the 11th inst.The deceased was quite conscious, but in a desponding state, as he had been for some time before i visited him on this occasion. Indeed for the previous month he had been in a very desponding state, for he believed there was no cure for him.I am of the opinion that the deceased was occasionaly labouring under delusions.After the occurance in question, I did not find any way that his health was in any way worse. For the first three days he partook nourishment the same as he used to do previously, which was very little. Since death i have examined the wound on the deceaseds head, and in my opinion judging from his appearance and the course which the bullet took that it was not the couse of death, and the wound did not produse any new symtoms. The deceased lived for eight days after the wound had been inflicted, and the wound looked remarably healthy. When i first saw the deceased these were no symtoms of concussion to the brain, the pulse was also natural. I am of the opinion that the deceased died from chronic compaints under which he sufferd for so many years, which worsend over the last month.Verdict- death of natural causes.