DEATH OF FURNACE
FROM EFFECTS OF POISON CHALK FARM MURDER CASE. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. Samuel .L Furnace, .detained on a charge of murdering Walter Spatehett, whose body was found amid the ruins of- a burned shed at Chalk Farm, was found writhing in his cell and was rushed to hospital, where he died some hours later. His illness was symptomatic of poisoning by spirits of salts. His wife was present, and a detective at the bedside was trying to make some sense of his incoherent cries.
The police are mystified as to-how Furnace concealed poison. He tvas stripped and his clothes were thoroughly searched.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 January 1933, Page 5
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