MAN WHO KNEW NOTHING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 3 October 1912, Page 6

MAN WHO KNEW NOTHING.

BUT PLAYED WITH POISON

The Auckland Star of Saturday says:—The police on Thursday came across a peculiar .young man. Two pedestrians were crossing the Domain at night, when tiie noticed a man sitting on a seat and behaving in a i manner which stirred their curiosity. He was making curious noises, and appeared to be taking draughts from a small bottle, they went up to him one of them observed a small bottlo on the scat beside him marked "Poison." They sent a message to the .Newmarket police, under the belief that the man Juki made an effort to commit suicide, but when a sergeant and a constable ■hailed u\ sight tJio supposed taker of poison fled to tno cover of trees at a great pace, and could not bo afterwards found. Ihe small bottle was found to contain laudanum, and inquiries were made of the chemist whose name it Imre.' A search of his "poison" book showed that a young man of the description given 'had purchased 20/, or launaiuun earlier in the evening, and, following the address given, the police located the purchaser in a young man. Re was still alive and well, and denied having taken any pr.isou. He had bought the laudanum, he said, for his father, but his father had not asked him to do so, and he could not say wiiy he thought his father needed the laudanum. Anyway, he hadn't taken any of it, and presumed that the missing part of the bottle's contents must nave leaked out in his pocket. Satisfied that their man was physically well, the- police handed him over to his parents with a caution to keep their eye on him.