QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11811, 21 December 1912, Page 5

QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyricbt.] (Per Press Association.) Received. December 20. at 10.5 p.m. Brisbane, December 20. At the inquiry into the death of Miss Zillman. a doctor said it here were no very marked symptoms of poisoning, but, another said there were several characteristics of strychnine poisoning. Airs Peterson, who recovered after eating the poisoned chocolates, deposed that the packages Alias Zillman received by post included one from Airs Walker, a former housekeeper. Burgess, whom Miss__Zillman was engaged to marry, deposed to posting the letters and' paretil to Aliss Zillman, but no chocolates. He admitted certain relations with Mrs Walker, and promising to marry her if her husband died or got a. divorce. After, their separation Airs Walker said to.him he was free to marry, and it was not fair to ask him to wait. She seemed pleased he was engaged to" Aliss Zillman. [On tile night of October 29 the police were advised'that Airs Peterson (60), a widow residing at' Morgan Park, a fewmiles from W r arwiek, and a young woman, Margaret Dorothy Zillman, had been poisoned. On proceeding to the scene they found Dr Phillips attending Mrs Peterson, and found Miss Zillman lying dead near the front door. Aliss Zillman evidently had\died in terrible agony. It appeared that both women ate some chocolates received from WarWick in the evening through the post. They became 21, and attracted the neighbors, but Miss Zillman succumbed. She had-been a companion, to Mrs Peterson for four years, and was to have been married in a few weeks to a well-known resident of the district.].