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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8305, 8 June 1907, Page 6

A remarkable coincidence in fingerprints has been discovered in South Africa. The prints in question are those of two Englishmen awaiting trial on criminal charges—one at. Capetown, the other at Bloemfontein. The finger-prints of both men were produced at the trial of one of them, and found to be identical in every respect. A married woman, named Mary Ann Dryden, lately died by a strange misadventure at her home, Wallsend, New South Wales. She was a strong, healthy woman, but occasionally took quinine powders. She was sitting, sewing; when she rose, and took one of the powders. Resuming her work she began talking brightly to her youngest child, two years old, when she was seized with acute internal pains, and went into convulsions, tier husband asked what was the matter, and she replied that she had only taken a quinine powder, indicating the packet. She died a few minutes after the doctor came. The powder turned out to be hydrochlorate of strychnine, and some of the poison was found in her stomach. The police are trying to find where and how the fatal mistake was made.