ASKED ABOUT POISONS
YOUTH’S DEATH. "Wnat are the strongest poisons? which act the most quickly? How quick is cyanide? How does it act? Opium? Strychnine? These remarkable questions were asked by Henry Alfred Lindsay, aged 17. of Arncliffe, a week before he die dfrom the effects of strychnine poisoning on August 24. At the inquest in Sydney, Francis Kelly, a city chemist, said that Lindsay had been employed in his shop, and when he asked these questions about potent poisons he gave him the correct answers.
The boy was a trusted employee, and Had the keys of the dispensary. The poison chest was kept locked by Kelly, and to obtain poison Lindsay would have had to remove the hinges which were exposed.
Other evidence indicated that the lad had hired a motor car some weeks previously, and had had an accident In it.
People whose property had been damaged were negotiating with him over compensation amounting to £3O when Lindsay died.
He did not tell his mother that he needed money or that he was worried.
The Acting City Coroner (Mr At kinson) returned a finding of sui cide.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10923, 24 September 1932, Page 4
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