DEATH BY POISONING.
AN ANALYST’S REMARKS. Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 21. The evidence at an inquest to-day once again turned on tho subject of the sale of cyanide of potassium, one of tlio most deadly poisons known to science. The Colonial Analyst for Auckland, Mr. Pond, expressed his strong disapproval of the system of allowing this drug to be sold, with such few restrictions, to photographers and others, and considered that it should most certainly not be allowed to get into tho hands of any person who wished to. purchase it. Oxalic acid, the witness remarked, was also used largely in commerce, but it..; sale was restricted’. The Analyst also stated that- the deceased, who had swallowed some cyanide, hid by some coincidence given himself almost as speedy a death as possible. He had partaken of a quantity of strawberries, and had afterwards, it is considered, taken the poison, which, combining with tho acids of the fruit, had liberated tho deadly hydrocyanic acid almost instantaneously.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2095, 22 January 1908, Page 2
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