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A REMARKABLE STATEMENT GISBORNE, August 26. A claim for wages, heard at the Magis* trate's Court to-day, produced some re- , m&rkable developments. Elsie landergneen, wife of a local butcher, sued Nathaniel Burgess, a board! ng-lio use keeper, 'or £45 for wages alleged to. , have been due to her as housekeeper;. - ' Plaintiff alleged that she met defendant in Wellington in May of last year, and there went through a mock marriage, which she thought at the time to be genuine. Subsequently Burgess removed to Gisborne, and. she cam© too, living with him as his wife. Later they quarrelled, and in March she found out she was not legally married. She then left Burgees. Defendant admite having lived witli the woman as his wife, but denies that there was any ceremony. The casa wafi adjourned' until Saturday.
\ An inquiry was held at Myrtlefanl (Vie.)' op the 16th mat. on the body of a. man discovered ■20 mile* from that town* De- 1 ceased had apparently been lost for Ijl couple of weeks, and had discovered a poisoned bird laid as bait for, foxes.- This he had eaten, thus accidentally poisoning himself. A p<?st mortem examination was made, when it was discovered- that the unknown man had: eaten the bird ravenously, even devouring th-a bones. A verdict of death \v accidental poisoning with strychnine was given.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 3
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