FATAL DRINK
CLEANSER TAKEN FOR LIQUOR
(United Presr, Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. Richard R. Smith and Joe Lorenz, traffic policemen, and Louise Jacobson manager of a theatre building here, died late yesterday after they apparently had mistaken a bo tie. of cleaning fluid for liquor and had drunk from it. The cleaning fluid, in Jacobson’s office, was in a whisky flask. The police at first believed that Jacobson, who returned home this morning from Los Angeles, had been given poison liquor by an unknown enemy there.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1932, Page 6
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90FATAL DRINK Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1932, Page 6
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