SYNTHENTIC NICOTINE.
A GERMAN INVENTION. SUTCIDE TN LONDON. (Pres Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, January 7. At the inquest on Joseph Born, a German chemist, who came to England to sell processes for ijho manufacturing synthetically made cocaine and santonin nicotine, a letter was read in winch lie said, “I must die by my own invention, isn’t it funny!” Evidence was given that he had received an offer of £2500 when he had demonstrated his ability to make nicotine, but encountered difficulties and had borrowed money. He wrote to the •chemists with whom lie had been negotiating: “I am sorry to inform you it is now 300 late to accept your offer. 1 have spent all my money. All is lost, myself and children are threatened with being put into the street and I cannot pay rent or buy food. This is my last day.” A verdict! of suicide by poisoning while off unsound mind was returned.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2064, 8 January 1925, Page 5
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