THE BYFLEET TRAGEDY
CORONER’S JURY’S VERDICT. MURDER, BUT BY WHOM? press Association—By Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, June 13. Summing up at the Byfleet inquest the Coroner commented on the sordid conditions at the Blue Anchor Hotel at the time of the tragedy. Vaquier seemed to be passionately lustfully fond of Mrs Jones. There was no ground for the suggestion that Jones committed suicide. The jury, after a retirement of 130 minutes, returned a verdict that Jones died from strychnine poisoning administered by some person or persons with intent to cause death.
Answering the coroner, the foreman said: “We cannot arrive at anything more definite than that we are of opinion that murder was committed by someone living in the hotel at that time.” —A. and N.Z. Cable-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 7
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