POISON DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 287, 4 December 1930, Page 7

POISON DEATH.

DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE ; Remarkable Diary Read at Inquest. MANIFESTATIONS DESCRIBED (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, December 3, A remarkable diary, describing hi: own slow death from poison, was lefi by Dr. Hugh Lonsdale Hands, agec 63, an inoculation expert of Brighton It was produced at an inquiry al which a verdict of suicide while oi unsound mind was returned. The entries are in a bold handwriting. After mentioning the poisons taken the diary states::—"Both are nice excepl for a tingling and tlie waiting. I an: feeling happy. This is the first time I have ever felt without a worry and as though I were free. My heart must be strong. It will not give way. It is a long time and so slow. The Japs, are right, death is lovely. "I feel fine; I have no pain. I have not told my wife everything. I did not want to worry her. I feel sleepy. My pulse is still good. Please have my vein opened. I may find myself alive in the coffin. That is a terrible thought. "I await the next manifestation. I believe now in a jufet God, not in man's laws. I am very comfortable. I leave half the furniture and the piano to my wife. My pulse is still good. I am just getting slightly dazed, but I am quite happy. ''Surely I earxnot live on! I am uncomfortable. I have just been sick. I ■ must take more poison- My pulse is good." There followed other technical comments, then, "It is extraordinary that my pulse id running well. I feel fine. When will it~all be over?" Then finally was. the entry: "'God seems to be over me. I am just leaving for a lovely voyage, .but it is clow. It is the first time 1 have had no worry. Money is nothing." Evidence showed that the doctor saw two patients after taking the poison. A letter to his wife said he was heavily in debt and asked what He had gained by all his study and research. The answer was nothing. Meanwhile, general practitioners made fortunes out of humbug-