ARSENIG POISONING
SENSATION- IN CORNWALL. ' . Press Association—By Telegraph— . LONDON, January S.-' The Jury at the inquest on Mrs Black returned a verdict that death was due to arsenic poisoning, which Clack adminia- : tered.—A. and N.Z. Cable. " * [Edward Block, an insurance agent .in \ Trogoniseey, Cornwall, left his home on an *; " alleged business. engagement a few days ago. His wife was then ill, and after hia departure the wife died. In the cirolim- . stances thte doctor declined to give the ,1 usual certificate of death. It then transpired : that Block had been dismissed from-i hi* employment and had “been sued 'for seresai debts. Later a warrant was issued far hip'' arrest on a- charge of fraud. The woman’* organs were submitted for chemical aaolyssk Black was arrested a few. days lotenj. , , ’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18447, 7 January 1922, Page 7
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129ARSENIG POISONING Otago Daily Times, Issue 18447, 7 January 1922, Page 7
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