TEACHER POISONED

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1929, Page 5

TEACHER POISONED

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

SYDNEY, August 28.

The Coroner to-day opened an inquiry at Queanbeyan into the death of Alick Bunfield, schoolmaster, whose body was exhumed. The medical evidence was that death was due to strychnine poisoning, a considerable quantity being revealed by an analysis.

Mrs Bunfield was not present having taken a fit before the inquiry opened.

Detective Kennedy gave evidence that he had interviewed Mrs Bunfield after the exhumation of the body. She admitted having ordered two lots of strychnine on different occasions at the request of her husband, who had told her that he wanted to poison rabbits, but he did not say when or where. John Morris, a chemist, deposed that he had supplied strychnine to a person whose handwriting was similar to that produced. It was sent to Michelago, where Bunfield resided.