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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 154, 2 July 1877, Page 3

_ 'c Z p :;: i . ,'.c si I r; J ! f btrychnine is universally admitted £0 J ihp (jfeadly, paisoa,. bufr a i^ is apt ajways fatal, provided that the experimentalist takes plenty of, it. A case in point,? says the Poverty Bay Herald, "occurred Jn^thia cjistrict only a ( day pr> 4w«j since. ! "Adold iileditity 'who for years pak has ' been jia jthe: employer M/atto3& r €irl(dli identity, thought fit. to indtilge in w ; ha6 -- th^' "cognoscenti c term 1 ■ ■ (l a a the . ©ther,-dtty«;j--. jTh©-.-- inayftablo- .reaction enaued; 1 the old" identity ~^who had fheea; So ; jovial and :; hilarious :,ia ! 6is - cups, was not fit to .throw, a, wiorel to a dog when he "wiis'recJoVariag fi fron| his excesses; in fact, he felt so budii that he concluded it would be better to quit the troubled scenes of life^ atfd;^:U|y fcis ;inj Bhe|s|extj. Ws abundance of strychnine at hand, ha determined that^he would accom^jishjthj.f fate) deed $%,. poison] as Vihkins and his Dinah and n tuner 7 ous other heroes and^haroiues had doo4 before them. A pannikin full ought; to be sufficient to do the trick, hi thought, so he placed a handful or sd of strychnine in one of the so called drinking vessels, filled it with water! and took a long driog. To a man whoj called in shortly after he aommuuicatedj what he had dove, stating also tha£ the strength of the dose precluded allchance of his recovery. His horrified neighbor at once "galloped 60 town for medical "asaistanbe^ add He Pollen; obey el the summons, expecting, to fiod : a eoafeoitad -eorpae' oa 'his; arrival. The oW indentiity 1 , was still alive, and after- administering: an emetic, the doctor", returned horiie, bringing with him the pannikin out of which bis patient ~UM ; I taken the draught. On closer examination Dr Pollen ..discovered that tfaa 7 man '-bad placed in 6ha veasel enough stry ch&ine { £0 annihilate- a h6rd of elephauta, butj owiag Co its insolubility in coid water! the whole of the poison had remained { x&G;ttke bottom 'ot thepannikia^ the r oid 1 indemity beitig' very Itfitls the worse for'; what he had intended to be his last; f ilraught r in thiq worlrfl" :] \ ] . A j