GIRL'S DEATH.
POISON IN CHOCOLATE. (XTSITEB PRESS ABBOCI ATI ON—BY FLECTXIC TE LI GRAPH—CO FTBIG HX.) (Received January 2nd, 11.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 2. ITh<s analyst's report states that the half chocolate which was not eaten by Hilda Johnson, of Newcastle, disclosed the presence of strychnine. The contents of the girl's stomach are now being analysed. —Australian Press Association. [Hilda Johnson, aged 15, became violently ill and died after eating a portion" of a chocolate. She stated that a friend gave it to her at the pictures, but the police ascertained that she had not been to a picture theatre. The other half of the chocolate was wrapped in her handkerchief and was taken for the purposes of analysis.]
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19508, 3 January 1929, Page 9
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