POISONED PARTRIDGE CASE

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18406, 13 August 1931, Page 7

POISONED PARTRIDGE CASE

THE POLICE BAFFLED. NO TRACE OF THE CULPRIT. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON. August 12. The coroner's inquest failed to throw the least light on the death of Lieutenant Chevis, who died at Aidershot on June 21, after eating a partridge which had ben poisoned. An open verdict was returned, after the widow had described the meal in detail. The police admitted that they had failed to irace the source of the poison, or the sender of a telegram from Dublin to Sir William Chevis, the father of the dead man. A message on July 31 said: The death al Aidershot, on .lime 21. of Lieutenant Chevis, of the Royal Artillery, who died after eating a partridge which had been contaminated by poison, is becoming a murder mystery. A baffling clue is a telegram received by his father. Sir William Chevis, from Dublin, on June 2 1. reading: "Hooray, hooray, hooray!" Lieutenant Chevis and his wife dined in an army bungalow, when both ate partridge. Mrs Chevis recovered. The parlridge was immediately burnt, lest it might poison a dog. so any elile was lost. The food in the safe outside the bung.i low could have been poisoned without anyone knowing.