POISON THAT FAILED.
PRO.UPT ACTION' BY CONSTABLE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. „ Dunedin, Thursday. Christopher Robinson, aged 28, a married man, when on the point of sweat by Constable Harvcry, of Warepa, yesterday 011 a charge of forging a >£so cheque, swallowed the contents of a, bottle of poison. Constable Harvey toimdled the man into a trap and drove at a mad gallop to the nearest farmhojuse, a mile distance, forced emetics upo* tie prisoner and kept this going till a, doeI? r w ' lo wid' the prompt action oi the constable had saved the man's IlU\
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 288, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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