POISON TRAGEDY
A CRIME SENSATION, United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. The poisoning at Aldershot, in which Lieut. .'Chevis of .the Royal Artillery died on 21st of June from e'ating. partr.'dge contaminated with strychnine is developed into a crime sensation. A baffling clue js a telegram received by the father, Sir William Chevis, • from Dublin on June 24, reading “Hooray,, Hooray, Hooray. - ’ Lieut, and wife dined at Army bungalow and both ate partridge. The wife recovered. The partridge was immediately burned lest it poison a dog, so the cluo was lost, but meat in the 6afe outside the bungalow could'-have been poisoned without anyone knowing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1931, Page 4
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