A CURIOUS TRAGEDY.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Brisbane, October 22.
A curious tragedy is reported from TownsViUe, vrbert Kircon, a chemist, »Dd Martin, manager of the United Insurance Company, were found dead in a bedroom over Kirton's shop. Kirtoix had a short time previously sent to a neighbouring chemist for prussic acid, and the theory is that he had given his friend an opiate, which acted fatally, and then, finding what he had done, poisoned himself.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10630, 23 October 1896, Page 2
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75A CURIOUS TRAGEDY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 10630, 23 October 1896, Page 2
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