CRIME SENSATION.
POISONED PARTRIDGE, DEATH OF A LIEUTENANT, A BAFFLING CLUE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright ! (Received July 29, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. A poisoning case at Aldershot in which Lieutenant Chevis of the Royal Artillery died on June 21, through eating partridge contaminated with strychnine, is developing into a crim3 sensation. i A baffling clue is a telegram received by deceased's father, Sir AMI-. 11am Chevis, from Dublin on June 2i, reading "Hooray, hooray, hooray!' • Lieutenant Chevis and his wife dinedtj at an army bungalow. Both ate part-; ridge but Mrs Chevis recovered. The partridge was immediately: burnt lest it should poison a dog to the clue was lost, but the meat which, was In a safe outside the bungalow; could have been poisoned without anyone knowing.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 7
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130CRIME SENSATION. Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 7
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