NARROW ESCAPE FROM POISONING.
Dunedin, This day. Tho wife of Mr J. M'Donald, M.H.R., has had a narrow escape from poisoning. Sho was taking medicine as a remedy for sick headache, and when in the act of swallowing her usual dose she observed a peculiar and unusual taste, and rejected it from her mouth, not, however, before having swallowed a portion. On the bottle being examined it was found to contain a solution of strychnine which Mr M'Donald had procured about two years ago for the purpose of poisoning birds and mice. Nobody was aware it was in the house. Happily Mrs M'Donald recovered after medical treatment.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3906, 26 January 1884, Page 2
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107NARROW ESCAPE FROM POISONING. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3906, 26 January 1884, Page 2
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