TOOK THE WRONG DRUG

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 12

TOOK THE WRONG DRUG

DOCTOR’S TRAGIC DEATH Believed to have taken strychnine in mistake for bicarbonate of soda. Dr. James Silver collapsed on his wife’s bed at their house in Baffins Road, Copnor, near Portsmouth. An hour after going to bed Dr. Silver got up and went to his surgery. He returned crying out to his wife, “Kitty, I am dying.” A quantity of strychnine was missing from a bottle which had been placed next to one containing bicarbonate of soda. Death was clue to strychnine poisoning. Dr. Silver, it was said, had occasionally walked in his sleep. Accidental death was the verdict. ate the theatrical business along Broadway. The producer is at their mercy. They can kill —and they do—even the best of plays, unless he plays the game with them. So elaborate is this system of exploiting the public that the ticket agencies decide what the producer may keep on the boards, and what plays the theatregoer may pay his money to see. Even if the play or the revue is a. complete failure, the producer must keep it going, regardless of his until the agencies have unloaded their tickets and exacted their pound of flesh for each sc;at. If he does not, he might as well quit the business. One remedy suggested is that a central ticket office should sell the tickets at the prices printed on them, plus a moderate charge for service. Meanwhile, one agency, which was not satisfied with robbing the public, but also cheated the Government out of its share in taxes, has been convicted.