POLICE INQUIRIES
SIGNIFICANT FACTS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
GEEYMOTJTH, September 28.
The sudden death of Margaret Smith at Blackball on Monday_ last has now become tho subject of intensive police inquiries as a result of allegations that the cause of her painful death was poisoned chocolates given her by two girl acquaintances, who received them through the post on Monday morning from soino person unknown.
Detective-Sergeant Holmes and Detective Thompson, of Christchureh, arrived early today and proceeded to Blackball to conduct inquiries. It is understood that the post-mark on the box of chocolates was difficult to identify, and therefore it has not been established from where, or from whom, they came.
A significant feature in the case is that the sender of the chocolates, if he did so with good motives, has not come forward, and also that ho went to the trouble to print a short note which accompanied them suggesting that he would see the recipients at a dance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 10
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POLICE INQUIRIES SIGNIFICANT FACTS
Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 10
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