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SHANGHAI SUICIDE.

TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1929.

the door of the room and tolo phoned to Binza Station. A detec tive cams and inspected the body, DEATH WHILE OF UNSOUND and later Det. Sub-Inapr. Henry oxamined the rooth. The door was MIND.

locked until the police came. The docensed had owed several hundred dollars. Up to the last four months he had always paid his debts. He had lived in her house for two yours and ten months. She had no suspicions that he contemplated suicido and his death grond surprise.

The inquest on George Matheson Kay, found dead in his bedroom at No. 11. Park Road, Shanghai, short ly after noon on March 8, was con- cluded last wook in H. M. Polica Court by the Registrar, Mr. AJ. Martin sitting as Coroner. "A vor dict that the dooossed had tied as a result of swallowing potassium cyanide while of unsound mind was roturnod

came as a

Dot, Sub-Inepr. Charles Henry attached to Sinza Police Station, rocalled, described searching Mr Kay's bedroom. He had found ginas containing liquid on a small table beside the bod, and no cup with some coffee in it. In a drawer of the writing desk he had found a small brown bottle with some white powder in it. He had sent the contents of the glass, the coffee cup, and the small bottle away for analyals Specimens of the two liquide and the bottle were pro

Dr. T. M. Burton told bow ha had been called to the deceased'ir bedroom about 18.45 p.m. on the day in qucation. He found him lying peacefully in his bed, with no signs of struggle or violence. Mr. Kay, had thon. boon dead about an hour, the body being still alightly warTEL He performed an autopsy later induced in court. the day and finding suspicions of poison, sent some of the entrails to the Municipal Laboratory for Analysia. The conditions of donth were consistent with death by poison..

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The Analyst's Report. Frederick George Cannon Wal ker, liicf annlyst of the S. M. gave the Health Department, result of his exaluation of the contents of the glass, cup, and bottle. The liquid in the glass, ho found to be a strong, solution of potassium cyanide, containing roughly three-quartern of an ounce of cyanide. Anything over five or six grains would probably be fatal, he said, natt added that there were 437 grains to an ource. brown bottle contained about five grains of potassium cyanide, but he found no traces of cyanide in the coffee.

On March

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MR. M. A. KHAN GUEST OF HONOUR,

Mr. M. A. Khan was the guast of honour at a tea "arty given at Lane, Crawford's restaurant yester-

day afternoon by the members of the Indian Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, of which he is an officer, on the oc- casion of his going on leave. He will be away for five months, and will sail for India by the 6.5. Talma, which is due to leave on March 22,

Among those present were Drs. H. el Arculli and D. K. Samy, Mosers. A. el Arculli, Bishen Singh, member of the Division. A. H. Rumjahn, and almost every

Mr. A. el Arculli, the Superinton- dent of the Division, in a witly speech dwelt on the services render- ed to the Brigade, and the Indian Division in particular, by Mr. Khan for the last three or four years. He assured Mr. Khan that his sor vices were very much appreciated, and on behalf of the Division be wished him bon voyage and a speedy return,

Mr. Khan In reply thanked Mr. el Arculli for what the latter had said about him. What little ho had done, for the 'Division, he did to the beat of his ability and he was and that his services were appre cinted. He thanked all the mem. Thebers for their co-operation during the last four years, and looked to the continued success of the Indian Division.

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The room-boy, Wu Ching-tany, described calling Mr. Kay at 7.50 that morning and giving him a cup of coffee. Mr. Kay had then asked the compradore and on learning that he had not come lind expressed a wish to see him after noon, The boy had gona to his room again at 12.10 p.m to ask him if he wanted any tifin, and

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I strong odour of Miss Hond had font for the polico. | potassium cyanide and the remain- Miss Lizzie Jano Hend, proprie-ing quantity of the poison was thou tress of No. 11 Park Road, said about five or six graing Odnsider that she had Inst soen Mr. Kay ably more must have been taken alive the previous Bunday as he in the first place. The stomach was paming downstairs. She had wall suggested a strong solution of been called up to his room at about cyanide. 1210 p.m. on March 8, and saw at anoe that he was dead. She locked

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A speech was also inade by Dr. H. el Arculli, who has recently joined the Brigade as Divialonal Surgeon. He expressed a hope]. that the Division would be as suc cessful under his tuition as it had been under Dr. Samy, and thanked the members for inviting him to the very enjoyable function.

Mr. Bishen Singh, Dr. Samy and Mr. A. H. Rumjahn also spoke In eulogy of Mr. Khan, whom they had known for a good number of years.

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