POISONED SWEETS
THE BLACKBALL CASE CORONER'S VERDICT GIVEN [BY TKLKGKAI'n —OWN COKRESPONDKNT ] GREYMOUTH, Monday An echo of last week's murder trial was heard to-day when the coroner, Mr. H. -Morgan, S.M., returned his verdict concerning the death of Margaret May Smith, who died at Blackball 011 September 24 last year after eating chocolates. Mr. Morgan presided in the Magistrate's Court when John Skikelthorp Page, since declared insane, was committed for trial on a charge of the murder of deceased and the attempted murder of Ethel Brazil and Jean Clark, the inquest proceedings being taken simultaneously. The coroner's verdict was: "That Margaret May Smith was murdered at Blackball on September 24, 19.'M, by some unknown person by means oi strychnine, which such person had inserted in some chocolates after the purchase of same and which were sent by such person by post to Misses Jean Kennedy Clark and Ethel Annie Bragg, of Blackball, who, ignorant that they contained poison, offered such chocolates to deceased, who, after taking and rating two of them, died from the effects of such poison."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 12
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