FATALITIES.
(Pkh United Peess Association.) AUCKLAND, September 18. At tho inquest at Auckland on Margaret Davis, who died in tho hospital from poisoning, Mr Frazcr, the coroner, found that death was caused by deceased drinking spirits of salts. Ho said that deceased's husband had made contradictor statements to the police, which gave rise to certain suspicions, but his statements were corroborated by other witnesses. There was nothing to show that Davis and his wife had led other than a happy life, but lie had been possibly negligent in placing spirits of salts inj a clipboard with spirits of nitre in a similar bottle, bearing a similar label. Tho Superintendent of Police received word yesterday that a single woman named Maria Patterson M'deary, aged 25 years, employed as a domestic servant at Henley, had fallen into the Taicri River during the morning wbilo drawing water, and was drowned. Tho body was afterwards recovered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17113, 19 September 1917, Page 2
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