STRANGE POISONING CASE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 236, 10 February 1911, Page 5

STRANGE POISONING CASE

BODY FOUND 1N T AN ALLEY.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, .Thursday

The woman found dead in a right-of-way in the city yesterday morning has now been identified as Ethel Bradley, u single woman 34 years of age, who haa been employed in the city as housekeeper. She was seen in Cashel "street at 8 o'clock on Tuesday night, but nothing is known of - he* subsequent movements. The body was found at 7 a.m., A doctor asserts that the woman had then been dead six hours. The police believe that the body was carried into the right-of-way, where it was hidden where it could not be seen from the street. It was, not there at 2 a.m. when a police-sergeant went through. The woman was pregnant. The police theory is that the woman died of poison. Analysis of the contents of the stomach is now progressing.

LATER DETAILS,

IS IT A CASE OF MI'RSER?

Christchurch, Last Night. The victim at Tuesday night's or Wednesday morning's tragedy in Cashel street has been identified as this divorced wife of a local resident, who, after obtaining a decree against her husband, resumed her maiden name of Ethel Bradley. She comes of an *■ old a,nd highly respected Lyttelton family. As far as can be at present ascertained, the last person who saw her alive was her nephew, who saw her in Cashel street shprtly before eight on Tuesday evening. She cheerfully acknowledged his "good night." * The police advance the theory that the woman tooic poison Herself, and that some other person with her, in all probability a male, frightened and excited at the deed, had conveyed her to the spot where she was found. The girl's relatives, however, firmly believe she was murdered. An inquest opens to-morrow morning. THE ANALYSIS. Christchurch, Later. Regarding the Cashel street tragedy it is understood that the result of the analysis of the stomach of the victim will not be ready for the inquest to-mor-row, and that so far the analyst has not found any traces of poison, but this is not final, as it is a tedious process that has to be followed before such traces are detected.