MUMMIFIED
THOROUGH SUICIDE. London, June 12. After drinking a tumbler of weedkiller, while insane, Walter Walker died instantly at Bickerton.
The Devon County Analyst said that the dose was enough to kill 200 persons. It contained arsenic and caustic soda, and Walker’s body would never decay, for it was permeated by the most effective of all embalming agents, and was thoroughly mummified.—Sun Special.
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Southland Times, Issue 20524, 28 June 1928, Page 7
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