GIRL TAKES POISON.
FATALITY ON OMNI FARM
EVIDENCE REVEALS NO REASON.
NGARUAWAHIA, November 24. A daughter of Mr S. E. Kemp, farmer, of Orini, Miss Ida Dillon Kemp, aged 17, died suddenly on Tuesday night apparently as the result of taking poison. An inquest ,w-as held this afternoon before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.C., district coriner. Evidence given by the parent* |jf A the girl, by a sister, aged 15, and by a young man employed on the farm,showed that deceased had been in her usual health and spirits, and failed to disclose any reason for her action. Deceased told her sister that she had taken poison.
The medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to poison-
ing. The, coroner returned a verdict that deceased died as the result of taking poison, but that the evidence disclosed no reason for her doing so.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5208, 25 November 1927, Page 2
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145GIRL TAKES POISON. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5208, 25 November 1927, Page 2
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