FATAL POISONING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 12

FATAL POISONING

MARRIED A FORTNIGHT husband takes own life EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST How a marriage? of only a fortnight's duration ended in tragedy was told on Saturday morning when an inquest was hold before; Mr. F. K. Hunt, coroner, concerning the death of Nathaniel Charles Henry Weston, aged :!8, tinsmith, of 26 Great North Road, Grey Lynn. Deceased was admitted to the Auckland Hospital early on Christinas morning sullering from poisoning and died soon afterward. Vera Klizaheth Weston, wife of deceased, said she and her husband had rented a bed-sitting room at Grey Lynn after the marriage. They bad no quarrel or disagreement. Deceased had a few drinks on Christmas Eve, but he was not intoxicated. He had never expressed any intention of committing suicide and seemed in good spirits.

Witness added that she and deceased visited the batter's mother during the evening and they went to bed early on Christmas morning. Deceased seemed quite normal, but after a time he started to cry. When she asked what was the matter, he .said, " Well, don't you love me any more?" She said she did, and he said, " Well, it's too late now. Kiss ino good-bye." He said he had taken poison. He often complained of pains in the head and suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. V. F. Usher said he found deceased in convulsions. His condition was very serious and he ordered him to hospital. Constable Davis described finding in the room portion of a small cake with poison on it and a jar of poison in the pocket of deceased's overcoat. It was a little over half full. The coroner returned a. verdict oi suicide by poisoning.