LATER DETAILS.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
Received 8 p.m., Jan. 29. Later details of the poisoning fragedy shows that Robert George Miller, a rabbit trapper, intended to enter the hospital for a slight operation to-day. Yesterday he purchased a small bottle of wine. Miller arid his wife each had a small glassful in the daytime, and suffered no ill^feffecltg. Each drank another glass on returning. The wife was soon in agony. Miller went to summon a doctor, but collapsed. Miller is fiam^y was ai tending /a dance next door. They heard groans, and on investigating found Mrs Milelr dying. She ssaid "I drank the wine, and it poisoned me." She expired in the hospital. Miller is improving to-day. Miller had a small amount of strychnine in his bedroom, which he used for poisoning rabbits. The pair lived on the happiest terms. Milter says his wife recently remarked that she was tired of life, but she had not threatened suiei'.lo.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 30 January 1913, Page 51
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157LATER DETAILS. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 30 January 1913, Page 51
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