WIFE'S DYING CRIES
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Phone Call to Husband POISON BOTTLE FOUND
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Oct. 7. "I'm lost. I'm lost," was the tragic call of Elsie Priscilla Metge, aged 42, by telephone to her husband, who immediately left his work at a warehouse on Tuesday afternoon and taxied home to find his wife delirious, lying fully dressed on a bed and repeating: " There 's a dynamo in my head. I'm lost." Two doctors wero called, but the patient lapsed into unconsciousness and, died the following day. Testifying at the inquest to-day, the husband said that among other things gathered- from seraps left on the kitehen bench by his wife wrs an empty bottle that had containcd a poison commohly used by gardeners as an insecticide. The coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, adjourned the inquest pending medical evidence as to the cause of death.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 13, 8 October 1937, Page 5
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