Mysterious Death.
By Telegraph—Press Association Wanganui, last night. At the inquest a few days ago into the death of a man named Tosland, who was found dead in bed, the jury returned a verdict that death was caused by p fisoning. At that time it could not be ascertained how poison was administered. The mystery has now been cleared up by a man informing the police that Tosland two years ago bought strychnine at Pipiriki. This man procured some wherewith to poison a dog, and deceased then told him he did not wish it to be known he had stryehuine in his possession,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 429, 30 May 1902, Page 2
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103Mysterious Death. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 429, 30 May 1902, Page 2
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