ACCIDENTAL POISONING
THE POLICE ENQUIRIES.
(Australian' Press Association.)
/Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) SYDNEY, April 8.
After exhaustive investigation by detectives into- the Murray family'' poisoning case, cabled on March 4th, the affair is’ regarded as The police ascertained that a mtnp);er of 'the family purchased white ant exterminator, containing arsenic, three years ago,and put it in a, popper castor with "sawdust, intending to shake it on a white ants nest. He afterwards placed the castor a.t tlio hack of a shelf and later on the cook found the castor and thinking there was pepper' inside, restored it to the family table, hut the original purchaser of the poison was then in bed ill/and was unaware the pepper was being regularly" used by other members of the ' family. The victims of the poisoning. liave licit yet fully re- / covered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1930, Page 4
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