POISONED PARTRIDGE
NEW (THEORY ADVANCED. New facts have come to the knowledge of the police which may help them to solve the mystery of the source of the poison which resulted in the death of Lieutenant H. G. Chevis, after he had eaten a portion of Manchurian partridge in his bungalow at Aldershot. It has been generally accepted, says a London newspaper, that the poison in the partridge was probably placed there by trappers in Manchuria, who adopt this method for catching foxes. It is thought that one of these poisoned birds was by mistake placed among a consignment for Britain. .... The question of supervision of birds imported to Britain has been discussed ever since the tragedy, and certain fresh facts, it is stated, have been discovered, which are likely to cause the matter to be raised in Parliament.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21646, 17 May 1932, Page 8
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139POISONED PARTRIDGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21646, 17 May 1932, Page 8
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