ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14702, 9 December 1909, Page 7

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER

ACQUITTAL OP ACCUSED.

Press Association-'By Telograpli—Copyright SYDNEY, December 8. Stani.-las Dyktor has been acquitted on tho charge of manslaughter preferred against him in consequence of the death of Mr Cr-x in the Hotel Arcadia on September 3. Henry Kobert Cox, aged of independent means, arrived with Ins wife on September 2 from Woy Woy, whore they rP.iid.id. About 11.30 p.m. they went to t!i': Arcadia Hotel, and .shortly afterwards went to \\ oooward's oyster saloon in King siiti't and had an oyster supper. They then returned to tho hotel, ar.tl Mrs Cox wentw bed. Mr Cox had had some liquor, and "id not go. to bed until about 1 a.m. About 5.30 in th? morning he commenced io vomit, and sot out of bed and tool: a di'iint from a giaw veasel on tho withstand. Almost immediately bo fell back on to Ills Hour, exclaiming " What horrible tasting water that is." With assistance, Mis Cox put tar husbatu! hack to bed., where he up[rared to go oil to sleep. She then went to sl-'ep, und about 6 a.m. found him dead, t wan afterwards found that the vessel From winch deceased drank contained cyanide of potassium, sodium chloride, and stiver cyanide.

At the inquest Constable Ivellv produced a <iii< lenient made by Stanislas 'Dyktor, an oculist, in which he said lie had stayed tor live weelu in tho Arcadia. During that nine he was experimenting with a liquid for sylvor-plalmg metals. lie kept the liquid in. the smaller bet tie, which ho had obtained from a housemaid. When he left the hotel, ho left, behind a quantity of ixipei's, cigarette boxes, and the bottle contaming tho liquid. The bottle had puncr round it, and tho paper could not come off by 'i-sc-lf- He thought tho housemaid would dear up the things be left. The -Coroner found that deceased lwd died from the elfecU of poison, negligently and carelesdy left by Dyktor in a bottfo resembling the water bottle. Dyktor wits flteii committed for trial ou a charge of manslaughter.