THE AUCKLAND POISONING CASE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2623, 2 September 1882, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND POISONING CASE.

IPBB PBJWS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, September 2. The investigation re the Cleaver poisoning case render the theory of »uioide untenable, to that the case itself is one of accidental poisoning or murder. At first it was insisted that the girl's relatives might have something to do with it, but when it became apparent that this could not poieibly be the case, suicide was the doctrine of those most interested. Drs. Biohardson and Walker made a joint analysis for the purpose of giving evidence at the inquest. The detailed result of this analysis will not be disclosed until given in evidenoe. We are authorised to state that the result has not modified the oonoluiiits come to by thensedioal gentlemen in making their first analysis, and in the private post-mortem examination on the body of the girl. Dr. Biohardson suspeoted poisoning from the first, but did not use th 9 stomach-pump, as by the time he was called, twelve hours after first symptoms, the stomaoh had been cleared by vomiting, and poison absorbed into the system. On his first visit Dr. Biohardson put the question straight to the deceased, " Had she taken any poison, as ho was unable otherwise to account for the symptoms." She replied in a perfectly frank and straightforward manner that she had not of her knowledge tikeu anything injurious. Her feeling seemed to be that of surprise that he should ask such a question, and her whole bearing and manner satisfied him that she was speaking the truth, and that she had not the slightest idea of suioide, or had she contemplated it. The Bev. Mr Tibbß, who had administered the sacrament, states nothing to lead anyone to believe that the girl was passing into eternity with deception on her lips, or any mental reservation. He entertains no shadow of belief that deceased oommitted suioide. He regarded the marriage as mookery, but as the friends of deooased thought otherwise, he did not use any urgency to persuade them against it.