A PURCHASE OP POISON.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7

A PURCHASE OP POISON.

■ Yesterdays''morning -■'a - 1 man' ■ named' ;■ John Driacpll ; feat " into .'a' 'chemist's' shop *on Kent Toirace'.-'trid; ;bought'sixpennywortK. of ,'arsehic "to.' poißOii a /cati"i t He," "nroceeded ■outsido the.;shop• and took |he poisfln himself. Jlc was ciinveyed , ta' the ■ Hospital arid treated, nftonvardS' being , 'removed- to the police'station.

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