POISONED PARTRIDGE
MYSTERY UNSOLVED. TELEGRAM FROM DUBLIN. LONDON, Aug. 12. The inquest has failed to throw th? least light on the death of Lieutenant Chcviss, of the Royal Artillery, who died at Aidershot on June 21 after eating a partridge. An open verdict was returned after the widow had described the meal in detail. The police had admitted that they had failed to trace the source of the strychnine or the sender of the “Hooray” telegram mentioned as a possible clue to the crime. It was reported recently that a baffling clue in the Aidershot case was a telegram received by the deceased’s father, Sir ’William Chcviss, from Dublin on June, 24 reading: “Hooray, hooray. hooray! ” The lieutenant and his wife dined in their army bungalow, and both ate of the partridge. The wife recovered.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 7
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