A Man Swallows Poison
SAVED BY A CONSTABLE. [Pkb Pbess association.] Dunedin, May 7. I Christopher Robinson, 28, a married man, when on the point, of arrest by Constable Harvey at Warepa yesterday, on a charge of forgery of a £SO cheque, swallowed the. contents., of a bottle of poison. .Constable Harvey bundled the man into a trap and drove at a mad gallop to the. nearest farmhouse, a.mile distant, and. forced, emetics. upon the. prisoner. He kept .this.going ; ti 11 the doctor arrived and afforded relief. The prompt actioa.oLthe. constable saved the man's'-life.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 14, 7 May 1914, Page 6
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94A Man Swallows Poison -? -? -? Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 14, 7 May 1914, Page 6
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