ALLEGED CASE OF POISONING AT AUCKLAND.
-♦ ■ [PKB TXITED P2ESS ASSOCIATION*.] ArcKLAXD, This Day. The police this afternoon exhumed the body of the late Mrs Hedges, at the Sjmonds- street cemetery. She is «1-ligcti-to have bt-en poisoned by arst-mc. Mie died on the 20th June, Isßl. The l'ocly was ; alien to the morgue. Dr fxoldshoro trill perform the post mortem examination of the body, mid forward tlie stomach to the Government analyist, Mr l'ond. The police, pending the result of I'ie analysis, iiave nut interfered «v;th Air Hodgrs, who bears a good character with liis neigbl>ors. He is a tailor by trade. The suspicion rests entirely ujvm most improbable statements made by bis daughter, which she lias delayed malting for an unaccountably long lime, and they lack, as yei, any kind of collaboration. Later. A Cam-bell, of Wellington-street, says lie lenc-vr' Mrs Hedges. She told him 1 1 I n t her d:ni<_'hter was weak-minded, and i of peculiar disposition.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 October 1882, Page 3
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159ALLEGED CASE OF POISONING AT AUCKLAND. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 October 1882, Page 3
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