SALE OF POISON
A CHEMIST FINED. By Telegraph—Preas Association. Dunedin, June 10. Ewen P. Cameron, chemist, was fined 205., on a charge of selling poison containing more than 3 per cent, of carbolic acid, to a person unknown to him. A further charge of selling the poison without the bottle being distinctly marked "poison” was dismissed. A lady purchased it on May IG. On the following day she was found dying in a bathroom with the hottie beside her. Defendant claimed that tho bottle had beeu labelled. The Magistrate accepted his statement. It transpired that this poison was sold by grocers promiscuously, and Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., stated that the substance had been declared poison. In a somewhat clumsy way grocers were selling prohibited poison, and it would be unfair to penalise defendant heavily.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 220, 11 June 1921, Page 7
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133SALE OF POISON Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 220, 11 June 1921, Page 7
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