WOMAN POISONED.
Tabloids, taken by mistake for lollies, caused the death of Mary Bresnan, a single woman of about 40 years of age, at the Wellington hospital on Sunday evening, soon after 5 o’clock. She was taken to the hospital about 6 p.m. on Saturday by a neighbour, and on being admitted told the nurse that she had swallowed poison by mistake. She said that she had come across a bottle of tabloids iu a cupboard and, thinking they were lollies, swallowed several of them.
The label on the bottle, is now in the possession of the police was: “Colchicine, Salcylate.” There were no marks of violence on the body. Miss Bresnan kept a boardinghouse at 28 Murphy Street. She was of Irish nationality and had been in New Zealand for about seventeen years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1079, 6 August 1912, Page 3
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134WOMAN POISONED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1079, 6 August 1912, Page 3
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