STRANGE CASE
MAN TAKES LARGE DOSE OF POISON BUT DIES FROM NATURAL i CAUSES. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST IN MARLBOROUGH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. It was revealed at an inquest on a shearer, William Collinge Hill, who! was found dead in a hut on the Delta Sheep Station, that although he had. taken sufficient poison to kill ten men. he actually died from natural causes, before the poison had time to take effect. A doctor told the Coroner, Mr E. J. Hill, that the post mortem disclosed that deceased was suffering a heart , condition that could cause death on exertion or excitement, and in his opinion, death resulted from heart failure, before the effects of the poison manifested themselves. Excitement, engendered by the fact that Hill intended to commit suicide, proved fatal. The Coroner commented that it was a strange case, where a man had the full intention to take his own life, but nature intervened and anticipated the effect of his action.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 2
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