Poisoning Case
Pleading guilty to a charge that, with intent to annoy or injure June Annette Nalepa, ■he attempted to make her take poison on September 14, Jozef Nalepa, aged 31,- a grinder, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence by Mr F. F. Reid, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch yesterday. Norman Patrick Alcorn, Government analyst, said that he examined a bowl .of milk, and two glass jars containing liquid. There was cyanide in all of the .exhibits, except- the cup, and there was silver in all of the exhibits including the cup. A cup of tea made from those ingredients—the water, tea, and milk-would contain 1.3 grains of potassium cyanide, approximately one quarter of a minimum fatal dose. To Mr E.S.. Bowie (for-Nalepa); “No one would di’ink a. full cup of tea of that brew. The symptoms would have made themselves manifest before the whole cup was drunk.—(P.A.),
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1948, Page 4
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152Poisoning Case Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1948, Page 4
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