A Poisoning Fatality.
[By Telegraph.] (Pit P/V.S-S' Association.) Auckland, March 11. Mrs Jenkins, wife of William Jenkins, a settler at Pukekohe Hill, died suddenly on Wednesday. She had complaining of pains in her chest, but was otherwise well. While dressing in her room she fell down, and expired just as Dr Dalziel and her husband arrived. She was 40, and leaves ten grown-up children. At the inquest two female witnesses deposed that deceased had told them before her death that she had taken poison by mistake. Her husband stated that lio had bought a shilling's worth (12 grains) of strychnine at a, local chemist's a year ago to poison dogs, but had not used it. He gave it to his wife, cautioning her to put it away carefully, lie had not seen it since. The police searched the house but found no trace of it. A glass was found in her room with traces of strychnine, and the /u>*t uinrtni) revealed the presence of that poison. A verdict of accidentally poisoned by taking strychnine by mistake was returned.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 270, 13 March 1897, Page 2
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178A Poisoning Fatality. Hastings Standard, Issue 270, 13 March 1897, Page 2
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