SALE OF POISONS.
FINE INFLICTED ON CHEMIST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, June 10. Ewen P. Cameron, chemist, was fined 20s on a charge of selling poison containing more than 3 per cent, of carbolic acid to a person unknown to him. A further charge of selling without the bottle, being distinctly marked “poison” was dismissed. A lady purchased it on May 16, and the following day was found dying in a bathroom with the bottle beside her. Defendant claimed that the bottle had been labelled. The Magistrate accepted the statement. It transpired that this poison was sold by grocers promiscuously, and Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., stated that the substance had been declared a poison in a somewhat clumsy way. Grocers were selling a prohibited poison, and it would be unfair to heavily penalise defendant.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 5
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