YOUTH’S TRAGIC DEATH
POISON TAKEN DURING SLEEP-WALK
After a three-hours inquiry at Scarborough into the death of Noel Abbey Sykes, aged ID, a chemist’s apprentice, who died from prussic acid poisoning, the jury returned a diet that Sykes took the poison while in a state of somnambulism. On Sunday morning he was found i dead in bed. He had arranged t® I meet a girl friend that afternoon an* : to go to church in the evening. Three empty four-dram bottles which Sykes had taken from the shop j with the intention of sending them ; to Boots* headquarters in Nottingham were found in his coat pocket, he hav* i ing evidently forgotten them. Dr. Griffin said that one of the bottles might have contained a little prussic acid. A teaspoonful had been Tvnow’n to cause death. He knew the boy well. In his earlier days be a sleep-walker. . Mr. John Whitfield. 3, solicitor, saia ! that that threw’ a new’ light on th 'Whole affair. It was inconceivab ©* 1 that a youth like Sykes, happy with no troubles, had intentional taken the poison.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 656, 7 May 1929, Page 2
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181YOUTH’S TRAGIC DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 656, 7 May 1929, Page 2
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