ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
-—* A POISONING CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. ■ Mrs. Letham. a widow, aged 01, died at her residence to-day. An inquest was held, at which it was shown that she had taken bichromate of potash. A verdict was returned of death from poison self-administered while in a etate of unsound mind. SUICIDE OF A BOY. Napier, Last Night. A boy named Charles Alexander Pullar, aged 14% years, who was committed to the Weraroa training farm from Invercargill in January last, and who was arrested here last night, charged with escaping from the farm, committed suicide in his cell at the Napier police station at tea time this evening. The boy had»apparently secreted a piece of clothes line about his person, and having fastened it to a bar in the ventilator hanged himself.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 248, 19 April 1912, Page 5
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136ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 248, 19 April 1912, Page 5
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