DEATH FROM POISONING.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 29. At the inquest on Mrs Katherine Frances McCulloch,. aged thirty-three, wife of Arthur Stuart McCulloch, the licensee of the Hobson Hotel, evidence was given that she left her bedroom at 5.10 p.m. yesterday and Fold her husband, who was in the bar, that she had taken poison. She asked him to send for a doctor. McCulloch obtained an emetic from a chemist's shop and called a doctor, who sent her to hospital, where she died at 6.£ ) p.m. McCulloch said that his wife asked him to get her some stout, which he refused. When his wife said that she had taken pioson, he did not believe her, as she looked bright and commenced to smoke a cigarette. When she persisted he sent for a doctor. There had not been any disagreements except when his wife took liquor. The Coroner returned a verdict of suicide in a fit of temporary insanity.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18603, 30 January 1926, Page 14
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