FATAL POISONING CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
New Plymouth, Monday. News has just reached here that Mrs Plumridge (better known as Miss Higgins), a half-caste well-known in Wellington and Auckland, poisoned herself and two children with strychnine about half-past eight o'clock this morning. It appears she came, into New Plymouth and purchased five drachms of strychnine on Friday last to poison rats as sho said.
Opunake, JVLonaay. Mrs Pluinridge's brother (George Taylor) was in the house, and also a Maori boy named Touri Taylor. They heard one of the boys retching, and went in to see him, when Mrs Pluumdge sent him to the constabulary camp for assistance, but did not say anything about the poison, and when he returned he found the mother and the other boy were poisoned also. Some letters and written statements as to the cause of the poisoning were left by the unfortunate woman, which weie taken possession of by the police. An inque&t will be held tomorrow.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1834, 8 April 1884, Page 2
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163FATAL POISONING CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1834, 8 April 1884, Page 2
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