POISONED BY POWDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1946, Page 4

POISONED BY POWDER

MYSTERY OF YOUNG WOMAN’S

DEATH NO CRIMINAL INTENT SYDNEY, July 31. The mystery surrounding the death at Goulburn on May 25, of the girl Audrey Cameron, aged 20, has not been solved. At the conclusion of the inquest to-day, the Coroner found that* Audrey Cameron died from strychnine-bruchine poisoning, from powder obtained from the handbag of Gloria Emerton, and accidentally administered by Audrey Cameron. The Coroner said Miss Cameron took poison in mistake for headache powder, but the evidence did not enable him to say by what means, or for what purpose the strychnine came to be in the handbag. It was quite clear that what Miss Cameron took was not headache powder in the form in which it left the manufacturer, and that, subsequently, strychninebruchine was either substituted for, or added to, the powder. It seemed obvious, too, that the poison could not have got into the powder from Gloria Emerton’s bag. It was conceivable that the ooison was placed in the handbag in circumstances which would not involve the person in criminal intent. The Coroner said he was satisfied Miss Cameron did not intend to take her own life. He believed that no harm to Miss Cameron was ever intended.