GIRL’S DEATH

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 248, 1 August 1946, Page 6

GIRL’S DEATH

MYSTERY NOT SOLVED (Rec. 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The mystery surrounding the death at Goulburn on May 25 of Audrey Cameron, aged 20, has not been solved. At the conclusion of the inquest, the Coroner found that Audrey Cameron died from strychnine-bruchine poisoning obtained from the handbag of Gloria Emerton, and accidentally administered by Cameron. The Coroner said Cameron took the poison in mistake for a headache powder, but evidence did not enable him to say by what means or for what purpose the strychnine came to be in the handbag. It was clear that what Cameron took was not headache powder in the form with which it left the manufacturer, and that subsequently strychninerbruchine was either substituted for or added to the powder. It seemed obvious that the poison could not- have got into the powder from Gloria Emerton’s 'bag. It was conceivable that the poison was placed in the handbag in circumstances which would not involve the person in criminal intent. ~ „ , . The Coroner said he was satisfied that Cameron did not intend to take her own life. He believed no harm to Cameron was ever, intended.