CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS
SYDNEY, September 5. A man named Cox, a country visitor, engaged a room at the Hotel Arcadia, and, feeling thirsty during the night, picked up a glass in the dark, filled it with water, and drank it. In the morning he was found dead. It "transpired that the previous occupant of the room had been experimenting with cyanide of potassium and other chemicals, and had left a portion of the mixture in the glass.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 24
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76CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 24
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