Supposed Poisoning.

Manawatu Herald, 11 April 1893, Page 3

Supposed Poisoning.

♦ — — ". Yesterday's N.Z. Times ..says a woman named Annie Corbett, who •is also known to the police by the name of Peterson, was admitted to the* .hospital at half past 8 o'clock last nighfc suffering from the effects of poisou. So far as can be ascertained it appears that shortly after 7 o'clock a man named Jansen discovered the woman lying in a room in a house in Haining street. She appeared to be very ill, and by her side was a cup containing what proved to be a solution of wax matches and brandy, some of which she had evidently been drinking. A telephone message was at once - sent for Dr Mackin, who adminis- j tered emetics and washed the woman's stomach with a stomach . - tube. After this treatment had been continued for some time Dr Macfkin ordered her removal to the hospital, whither she was conveyed by Constable o'Donovan, who had been called in to the scene of the occurrence. •On enquiry at the institution last night we were informed that the stomach pump had been used, but that nothing could be then said as to her chances ot recovery. ■