POISONED AT DANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 12

POISONED AT DANCE

JAZZ WORSHIP OVERCOMES PRUDENCE ROUND OF GAIETY Jealousy is. believed to have prompted a young city business man to poison a society beauty and himself in dramatic circumstances during the progress of a fashionable dance at 3 private house in the exclusive suburb of Toowong, near Brisbane, recently. While sitting out a dance the girl’s lover invited her to a whisky and soda, and in the glasses he placed, while unobserved, sufficient veronal to kill seven people. “Do you really love me?” he asked as the tumblers were raised. “Why, of course I do,” laughingly replied the girl. "Then drink this with me. Goodbye,” said her companion, and they each drained their glasses. A few moments later a guest found the pair lying unconscious on the verandah. A nurse who was present at the party had the couple rushed to a doctor, who employed a stomach pump on the patients, and ultimately they recovered. The young woman in the case returned recently from a visit to the Southern capitals, where her round of gaiety was so strenuous that, on her return to Brisbane, her doctor advised her to take a rest cure, and remain away from parties. She agreed to do so, but the uneventful life of the suburbs she found to be too wide a contract with* her former successes in the social whirl, and she gravitated toward the jazz worshippers who dine and dance in the city hotels.