DEATH FROM POISON.
WOMAN FO(JND IN CEMETERY. ONEIIUXGA DISCOVERY. "That death was due to poisoningtaken on or about October 1, 1935, while in a depressed state of mind," was the verdict returned this morning at Onehunga by Mr. D. A. Sutherland, district coroner, at the adjourned inquest into the death of Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Brady, aged 00, whose body was found by two boys named Noel Ludlow and Robert Ferries, in the Waikaraka Cemetery, Onehunga, on Sunday, October C. Dr. W. Howard Thomas, who made a post-mortem examination, said Mrs. Brady had been dead for probably five or six days. There were no outward marks of violence. The heart was diseased and its condition was quite sufficient to cause' death. The stomach was handed to the police for the coil-: tents to be examined. I Kenneth M. Griffin, Government analyst, Auckland, said the analysis of the stomach revealed one point seven | drams of poison. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 9
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