FATAL CURIOSITY
YOUTH DRINKS CYANIDE. [PXB PBKBS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, November 2. The Balclutha police advise that. Leslie John Taylor, 19, whose parents live at Paretai, died yesterday afternoon after swallowing cyanide. Deceased, with another youth, was on a fishing expedition, and they visited an abandoned- gold mining claim Here they found a bottle containing cyanide, which Taylor tasted from curiosity, dying almost at once.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1931, Page 2
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64FATAL CURIOSITY Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1931, Page 2
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