BOY POISONED
GIVEN DRINK BY UNKNOWN MAN. Melbourne, January 22. A three-vear-old boy, Robert Murray Boyd, died in the Prince Alfred Hospital from the effects of poison. When the boy reached home lie told his mother, who lives at Richmond, that an unknown man had stopped him and asked him if he wanted a drink. The man then handed the boy a lemonade bottle. The boy became ill and was removed to hospital. A post-mortem examination revealed that the boy’s mouth and throat had been burned, possibly by spirits of salts.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 101, 24 January 1927, Page 11
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91BOY POISONED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 101, 24 January 1927, Page 11
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