TWO POISONED

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1933, Page 2

TWO POISONED

MOTHER AND CHILD DEAD.

INQUEST HELD AT HASTINGS.

(Per Press Association—’Copyright)

HASTINGS, July 18,

The death, by poisoning of Mrs Ulsie Verna Anderson, aged 26, and of her three-year-old daughter, Verna Irene Anderson, at Hastings, on June 25 last was the subject of an inquest to-day when a verdict was returned that-the infant deceased died as the result oi poisoning administered by her mother who also died as the result qf poisoning administered hv herself, while in a ’state I’b'f mental depression ,brought about mainly by ill health, -

The evidence showed that the -Anderson’s were'not in any immediate distress' always having plenty of food, and no (need to Worry oh that ‘account. Mrs Anderson had had l ' one Operation-, and she knew that' another had’ to be performed' sooner of*’later.- ■ She had been very ’• dfespoli'deht, as -n result since last: Christmas, .but ‘had never hinted at doing herself any harm. There waspoison in ’the house, which the lmsbaiwi of deceased and his brother had used for rabbiting. This was kept in a bottle, which was found under -tho hod on the occasion of the deaths.