A FATAL MISTAKE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14011, 16 September 1909, Page 2

A FATAL MISTAKE.

A NEGLIGENT EXPERIMENTS*!

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (Received Sept. 16, 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 16. TJje coroner found that Cox, a cou i try visitor to Sydney, died from tin effects of poison negligently left l>,i one Dyktor in a bottle in a bedronr at the Arcadia Hotel. Dyktor h.u been committed for trial.

[Feeling thirsty ■ during the night. deceased picked up a glass in the dark. filled it with water, and drank it.- H transpired that a previous occupant of the room bad been experimenting with cyanide of potassium and other chemicals and had left a portion of the mixture in the glass.]