CHEMIST ACCUSED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21449, 13 September 1939, Page 5

CHEMIST ACCUSED

srrrLYiNG noxious dim g l'.\ I i li-Ri "I'll l'i/--.- A l --i hlh I Inn ' HASTINGS. .September 12. Inquiries by the pohee into Hie rn-(•uuisLjjh-i-.s of the death oi Muriel Esther Reichelt. who"' body was found in Avenue Road. Hustings, on July ‘2O, resulted in the appearanc before MiMiller. S.M., in the M gistrate’s Court this morning, of Godfr* Coldwell, a Hastings °n c ?rn : on two indictable charges. On the request of the police a remand until October 4 was granted No opposition was entered to the request for bail, which was granted m £3OO in accuseu s own cognisance and I two sureties of £l5O each. The counts against accused are:— That on or about June 16. at Hastings, he did unlawfully supply to Muriel Esther Reicheß a certain poisonous Luing, knowing that the same was *o be unlaw Tilly u ?d with intent to procure a misearnagi of Muriel Reichelt; that on or about July 19, nt Hastings, he did improperly interfere with the dead human body of Muriel Esther Rek belt. "There are certain persistent rumours abroad and I would like to poirt out that accused is charged with supplying a poisonous thing on June 17 a c’ the young worn...) v’ about July 19,” said Detective-Sergeant Revell. "From u ir point of ”iew the police do not suggest that there connection bet etn the supplying of this noxious thing and the death of the young woman a mo..th later.” “I f ink that is a v ry f; ‘ staten■.t to make. It has my approval entirely,” said the lagis*rpte. “It is only right the ueh a statement should be made at this T.ictr ? so no false suggestions should get abroad.”