SMOKED CIGARETTE AFTER TAKING POISON.
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST ON WOMAN’S DEATH. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. January 29. At an inqtiest on Mrs Katherine Trances M’Culloch, aged thirty-three, ■wife of Arthur Stuart M’Culloch, li censee of the Hobson Hotel, evidence ■was given that she left her bedroom at. 5.10 p.m. yeeterday and told her husband, who was in the bar. that she had taken poison. She asked him to send for a doctor. M’Culloch obtained an emetic from a chemist’s shop and called a doctor, who sent her to hospital, where she. died at 6.20 p.m. M’Culloch said that his wife asked him to get her some stout, which he refused. When his wife said that she had taken poison he did not believe her. as she looked bright and commenced to smoke a cigarette. When she persisted he sent for a doctor.
There had not been any disagreements except when his wife took liquor.
The Coroner returned a verdict of suicide in a fit of temporary insanity.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17757, 29 January 1926, Page 8
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