A Shocking Occurrence has taken place at Colbinabbin north, and is reported in the Waranga Chronicle. A man named William Lassom poisoned himself by taking; strychnine on the 10th instant, while suffering from delerium tremens. His infant daughter, shortly after he took the poison, found the glass and drank some of its remaining contents. They were both taken in the convulsions consequent on poisoning by strychnine, and both died about the same time.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 33, 7 February 1872, Page 4
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