GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, 24 August 1923, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

MYSTERY OF A NECKLACE

A diamond necklace stated to be worth £IO,OOO was stolen from Mrs Mary Fielding, a British visitor who was sitting in the stalls of a musicThe loss was discovered as Mrs Fielding rose to leave. She informed the police that the chain of her bag had been cut and that the bag itsel was missing. Meanwhile a tall, well-dressed young man had spoken to an actress leaving the music-hall after her performance. “You have dioppe this,” he said, .handing her the bag. The actress took the bag, then, seeing it was not hers, turned to tell the stranger that he had made a mistake, He had vanished. Mrs Fielding found that the bag contained all her jewelery expect the necklace, which was composed of 56 diamonds weighing 10 carats each the central drop 15 carats. Mis Fielding, after reporting the whole matter to the police has left Pans for Nice.

NURSE’S ERROR

Two patients who died in Walthamstow Hospital following operations were stated by medical witnesses at a coroner’s inquiry to have met their death from an overdose of atropine, administered accidentaliy as the result of an error on the part of a nurse. The patients, Charles Philip Keating, 38, of Leyton, and Richard Metson, 25, of Wanstead, were successfully operated on, but afterwards collapsed. , .. . A Dr. Brunton, who administered the anaesthetic in the first case, said he then discovered that the nurse . had administered the hypodermic mic had given ti solution of atropine 100 per cent above the prescribed amount. „ _ . • . The nurse, Muriel Hosking, said that when she went to the cupboard in the ward she could not see a bottle there, and according y we to another cupboard to get ™ ot ! ie bottle. She did not know that the strength of the drugs m bottles differed. Dr. Woolf, who was engaged in the second case, said that m the majority of London hospitals the duty of administering hypodermics was entrusted to a nurse. The coroner. Dr. Ambrose said he thought some scheme should be devised" wehreby the duty could be performed by some responsible person. 4. verdict that death was due. to an overdose of atropine accidentally given was returned in each case.