GALLOWS CHEATED
Goering Commits Suicide POISON SECRETLY TAKEN Rigorous Searches Defeated (Rec. 11 p.m.) NUREMBERG, Oct. 16. It is officially announced that Goering committed suicide at 10.45 last night by taking cyanide of potassium. v The prison commandant, Colonel Andrus, said Goering’s guard heard him making an odd noise, and saw him twitch. The guard called a doctor and a chaplain who were in the corridor, and they Goering dying. There were pieces of glass in his mouth and his breath smelt of cyanide of potassium. An investigation is now going on to discover how Goering concealed the poison when he was subject to daily rigorous searches both of his clothing and person. Correspondents report that Goering swallowed the poison a few minutes before the death sentence was to be read to him as a preliminary to hanging. A small brass container, made from a cartridge case, which apparently contained a poison phial, was found on the body, also an envelope with pencilled notes thereon. As a result of Goering’s suicide the rest of tho condemned men were led to the gallows in manacles.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26285, 17 October 1946, Page 7
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