ATTEMPTED POISONING
CHARGE AGAINST A HUSBAND.
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MELBOURNE, 17th March. The trial of Patrick Marshall, who ia charged with attempting to poison his wife, has commenced.
Accused, in a- statement, said that he often had eiven horses strychnine, onri it had done them good. He, himself, had taken it in medicine, and derived great benefit. When he cut it in his wife's medicine, he thought that it was a bottle of his own medicine.
Patrick Marshall, a contractor, nf Hoyfield, is charged with attempting to cause poison to be administered to his wife Agnes, with intent to murder. The police allege that Marshall insured his wife's life for £2000 oil 25th January, .indjwo days Inter took her to a doctor, wlfo prescribed for her. She took the medicine at first without, any ill-effect, but on 2nd February she became violently ill, and was sent to hospital, where she recovered; but after taking another dose of medicine on 6th February, while in hospital, she was again violently ill from strychnine-pois-oning. An analysis of the medicine showed that strychnine had been added.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 64, 18 March 1925, Page 7
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183ATTEMPTED POISONING Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 64, 18 March 1925, Page 7
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