SALE OF POISONS.
IDT TBLKOIUPH— VRZ9* ASSOCIATION.? AUCKLAND, 28th January During nn inquest in a case of suicide, by poisoning, Mr. Ureshain (Coroner) expressed the opinion that it was unfair t<* a chemist to throw upon him the responsibility of being able- to dispense with th« necessity for a witness's signature when selling poison to a person known to him. in the. case under consideration h won found that, unknown to the chemiM deceased had beou a heavj drinker, was « prohibited pcison, and had several time? tnocl to poison himself. l t iranspirtd hat "the police acting under a recent Order-m-Council regularly supplied to the Registrar a lust of all sales of amenta and stryohmno in the district. The Coro ■■ nor remarked that it was Grange that those safeguards should bo token in regard to arsenic nnd strychnine and omitted in regard to prusaic acid, which was fur tnorc.deadly and more difficult to de^ tect by analysis.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1904, Page 5
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