THE DUFF CASE
WHAT EXHUMATION REVEALED. (United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) —7" ' LONDON, July 12. At the opening of the inquest on Edward Duff, about whose exhumation details were cabled on July 2. the Coroner announced that arsenic had been found in every tissue of the exhumed body. The doctor’s statemen': revealed that four-fifths of a grain had been actually found in the body. Thomas Sidney, brother of Mrs Duff, gave evidence that the couple were happily married, though he saw Duff really angry with his sister just before he went on a fishing holiday. This was unusual, because the deceased was always good tempered. The inquest was adjourned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1929, Page 5
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109THE DUFF CASE Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1929, Page 5
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