POISONING TRAGEDY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1913, Page 5

POISONING TRAGEDY.

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THE WINE WAS POISONED

[>RESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received Jan. 29, 8 p.m ) SYDNEY, Jan. 29. .Later details of the poisoning; tragedy in Wellington Street show that Robert George Miller, a rabbittrapper, intended to enter the hospital to undergo ''a, slight operation to-day

Yesterday he purchased a small bottle of wine. Miller and his wife each had a small glassful in the daytime, wkh no ill-effects following. Each drank another glass later on. The wife was soon in agony, Miller went to summon a doctor, but collapsed on the way. The family was attending a. dance ■ next door and heard the groans of Mrs Miller, who was dying. She said: "I drank some wine and it. has poisoned me.'" She then expired. ;'

At the hospital Miller is improving. He had a small amount of strychnine in his bedroom, which le used in poisoning rabbits. The pair lived; en the happiest terms. Miller says that his wife recently remarked that she was tired of life, but she did not; threaten, to commit suicide.