DEATH FROM POISONED CHOCOLATES
DRAMATIC TURN AT INQUEST
(Australian Press Association.) (Rec. February 26, 5.5 p.m.) Newcastle, February 26.
A dramatic turn has occurred- in the case in which Hilda Johnson, a fif-teen-year-old girl, died on December 15, after eating chocolates given her at a picture show. During the Inquiry to-day the police sought and obtained an adjournment to enable them to take a certain course. Detective Ryan informed the Coroner that he heard from two postal youths that they had been offered chocolates on the night of the girl’s death by Harold Ferris, who casually remarked: “You need not eat them unless you like, because they have been in a pocket where I had poison.” Both youths thereupon spat them out.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 131, 27 February 1929, Page 11
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