A FATAL MISTAKE.
Sydney, September 5
Cox, a country visitor, who engaged a room at the Hotel Arcadia, feeling thirsty through the night, picked up a glass in the dark, filled it with water and drank it. He was found dead. It transpired that the previous occupant of the room was experimenting with cyanide of potassium and other chemicals, and left a portion of the mixture in the glass.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 477, 7 September 1909, Page 3
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69A FATAL MISTAKE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 477, 7 September 1909, Page 3
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