MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY
LITTLE BOS'S DEATH. (Press Assoctatiop—By Telegiapn—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, January 21. A three-year-old boy named Robert Murray Boyd died in the Prince Alfred Hospital from the effects of poison. When the boy reached home he told his mother, who lives at Richmond, that a man had stopped him and asked him If he wanted a drink. The man then handed the boy a lemonade bottle. The boy became ill, and was removed to the hospital. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that the boy’s mouth and throat were burned, possibly by spirits of s^tlts.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20005, 24 January 1927, Page 8
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