DEATH BY POISON
A THREAT FULFILLED.
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association
DUNEDIN, April 3
A few hours after he had appeared in the city Police Court on Saturday hnd hatf been "ordered to hand over to the police a quantity of poison with which lie had threatened to commit suicide, Hugh Thomson, aged sixty seven years, a farmer, residing at Alosgiel, was admitted to Dunedin Hospital, where he died shortly afterwards from the effects of poison. Thomson had been arrested on Friday in a hotel bar on a charge of drunkenness and had been fined 10s. Tn accordance with an instruction from the Bench, he had handed over a quantity of poison, with which lie had threatened to commit suicide, but an hour or two later he was admitted to hospital,
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1932, Page 6
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131DEATH BY POISON Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1932, Page 6
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