DRAMATIC SUICIDES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1058, 22 February 1911, Page 5

DRAMATIC SUICIDES

SEQUEL TO POISONING TRAGEDY.' By TclcEraph-Press Association-Copyright* London, February 21. ■ , John nutchison, wanted in connection |_ with tho tragedy at Dalkeith, Scotland, c where of sixteen persons attacked by _ arsenical poisoning after partaking of _ coffeo at a supper-given by Hutchison's o father, tho latter and one of tho guests . succumbed, was arrested at Guernsey, in jj tho Channel Islands. s _Ho committed suicide at tho moment of l_ his arrest, by taking poison. t _ Hutchison was suspected because a K bottle of arsenic was missing from his n employer's shop. Ho carried the poisoned coffeo from tho kitchen to the guests in the 0 diningroom. It is,understood Hutchison p was suffering from some form of y dementia, and was apparently jealous of g a deceased guest's attention to a woman. t j For several days he stayed in Jersey, under tho namo of "Harrison." Hβ was growing a beard, and remained indoors. Ho stated ho belonged to Ilford. When a sergeant of police was pursuing him up tho stairs of a boardinghouso in s Guernsey, Hutchison drew a phial con--1 taining prussic acid from his pocket and r swallowed tho contents. e The sergeant seized the phial, but death ■ was almost immediate.