MYSTERY OF POISON IN HANDBAG
Received Wednesdav, 11.20 p.m. SYDNEY, July 31. The niystery surrouuding th'e death at Goulburn 011 May 27, of Audrey Cami ewni, aged 2.0, liiis. not been solved. At._ | tihe eohc'liision of an inqiiest .today, .'tlie 1 CoVoniir ifoun j ithtt-t '.Yhe'i ttied firom Istrychnine bnichine poisoning obtalnod ''from "the handLtag- of Gloria Emerton and aecidentallv admiiiislered by lierIself. 1 Tlie Coroner said Miss Cameron fook ] the poison in mistake for headaclie powder, but Ihe evidence did not enable him to say by what nieaiis or for what purpose tlie strychnine came to be 111 the handbag. It was quite clear that jwhat Miss Cameron took was not headaclie jiowder in the form in which it 1 lei't tlie niamifact urer and that subse'quentlv strychnine bruchine was eitlier jsubstituted for or added to the powder. It seemed obvious, too, that the poison could not have got into the powder 'from Gloria Enierlon's bag-. Jt was ; conceivable that tlie poison was placed j in the handbag 111 circunistances which would not involve Ihe person in criminal intent. The Coroner said he was satisfied ATiss (huneron did not intend to take lier own life and he believed no harni to Miss Cameron was ever intended.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1946, Page 5
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