DEATH OF NEW ZEALANDER
HAROLD BASKIN’S TRAGIC END
(United Press Association—TW Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 16th January.
Further details of Harold Baskin’s tragic death were revealed at the inquest at Paddington, the Coroner, Mr Ingleby Oddie. returning a verdict of death from strychnine, the evidence not showing his slate of mind at the time. Baskin in a farewell letter addressed to Dr. Charles Pettinger at the Wallsend Hospital, New South Waler, described the robbery, consequent misery, and two unsuccessful attempts to finish everything by means of poison. The police gave evidence that Baskin was taken to Scotland Yard and identified the photograph of the alleged confidence man, but the Coroner doubted the truth of the robbery story. A follow passenger on the Hobson’s Bay gave evidence that Baskin was moody on the voyage. He left his wife and two children in Australia, and received a cable at Southampton stating that one child was dead. Mr Oddie: “It is a strange case. I wonder where he got the strychnine, which is hard to obtain.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 January 1931, Page 5
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