DEAD IN HOTEL.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 8

DEAD IN HOTEL.

YOUNG WOMAN EMPLOYEE STRONG POISON TAKEN NOTE DISCOVERED IN ROOM (Special to Times.) CAMBRIDGE, Tuesday. Discovered in her room by a fellowemployee while in the act of drinking from a glass, a young woman cook of the Masonic Hotel, . Cambridge, Una Maud (Pat) Millard, single (28), collapsed at about 8 last evening and died an hour later as a result of poisoning after a doctor had unsuccessfully endeavoured to save her life. She had been working at the hotel for the past three months. Miss Millard had gone to her room after completing her evening duties. A friend, who was also employed at the hotel, went to see her about 8 p.m. and when she entered the room she saw deceased drinking from a glass, which her friend thought, contained medicine. It was so - on observed that Miss Millard was ill for she swooned and collapsed on the bed. Her friend immediately called the licensee’s wife, Mrs Wilson, who did not hesitate to call a doctor when she found that a bottle on the dressing table, which was practically empty, and from which the young woman had apparently been drinking, had contained a strong poison. A doctor attended the patient but was unable to save her life.

Fellow employees of the deceased stated that there had been nothing unusual in the young woman’s demeanour yesterday. When the bedroom was searched by Constables C. H. Maisey and R. Bowie a note was discovered which will be produced at the inquest, which will open in Cambridge to-morrow morning.

Miss Millard was an Australian and her parents are deceased but she had an aunt living in Wellington.