POISONING BY STRYCHNINE
INQUEST INTO DEATH . OF H. H. WELLS CORONER’S VERDICT The inquest into the death of Harold Herbert Wells, aged 47, who died on December 31. 1950, was concluded yesterday before the Coroner (Mr Rex C. Abernethy). A verdict that Wells died through poisoning by strychnine, with no proof as to who administered it, was returned. A verdict that Elsie Ellen Wells, aged 34, died in Christchurch on November 20, 1950, from encephalomyelitis, was returned by the Coroner. Norman Patrick Alcorn, the Govern ment analyst at Christchurch, said he had examined the body of Mrs Wells for evidence of strychnine, arsenic, and barbiturate poisoning, but with negative results.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26398, 17 April 1951, Page 8
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