OPAKI SENSATION
POISON IN WHISKY BOTTLE MAN’S SUDDEN DEATH AFTER DRINKING COMPANION FOUND IN STATE OF COLLAPSE Bt TEi.EaitA.rn.— Press Association. Masterton, August 23. A sensation was caused in Opaki, three miles from Masterton, this morning, when it became known that two well-known horse-trainers, Alex Watson and Thomas Higgins, had been poisoned. It appears that Watson purchased a bottle of whisky yesterday, and with Higgins, disposed of a portion of the contents. The bottle was then placed under Higgins’s bed ; in a cottage at Opaki. After training operations at the course had been completed this morning, tho two men went for a drink. Higgins produced the bottle from under the bed and they drank together. Watson immediately collapsed and died six minutes later. Higgins summoned doctors, who. on arrival, found him prostrated. They administered emetics and pumped out his stomach. Higgins was taken to hospital, and has every chance of recovery. Watson leaves a widow and family. The presence of poison in the liquor is a mystery, as both men were popular and on good terms with everybody in the neighbourhood. A sample of the liquor was recovered bv the police and forwarded to the Government Analyst. The police are investigating the matter.
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 290, 24 August 1923, Page 6
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203OPAKI SENSATION Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 290, 24 August 1923, Page 6
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