"OLD, OLD STORY"
DEATH BY POISONING
COMMENT BY CORONER
(By Telegraph—Press^ Association.) I AUCKLAND, This Day!
Returning a verdict of suicide by poisoning in the case of Joseph.Dodgson, war pensioner, aged 49, who, with another man, Cecil Francis, Hunt, drank strychnine from a glass in the flat of a married woman on, the evening of November 22, the Coroner said that it was the old, old story.. The Coroner advised the woman to get work instead of "messing about with men."
The evidence showed that Dodgson and Hunt were both visiting the woman at her flat and Dodgson had become jealous. He produced the strychnine and both men drank from a glass. Dodgson died on the way to hospital. The woman gave Hunt mustard and water^making him vomit, and he recovered in hospital.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19381207.2.119
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1938, Page 15
Word Count
133"OLD, OLD STORY" Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1938, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in