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THE HONGKONG

FATAL FRIDAY

DRANK A DANGEROUS- POISON BY MISTAKE Friday the thirteenth is looked upon by the superstitious as a par ticularly unlucky day.

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, AUGUST

ing? That is if he could read.

If he saw there, he would be more, likely to enquire about it-I agree. what ha Dr. Thomas added that had sald was his oplaton, and he Every was not criticising doctors. qualified doctor had a right to treat a case as he thought bost..

3, 1934.

TRAIN WRECKED

SEVEN KILLED IN

BANDIT TRAP

Harbin, Aug. 2.

Bandits to-day doralled and Dr. F. Y. Khoo, house surgeon, stated that ho first saw. Tam Kam-

an castbound freight On Friday, July 13, Tam Kam-chuon at 4.30 pm on July 13. He wrecked chuon, aged 20, went to the out diagnosed his complaint as lumbago train at a point 14 miles east of There was heavy loa patients department of the Govern- and prescribed glycerino belladonna, Imienpo.

He explained to of life. ment Civil Hospital, and complain- to bo rubbed in.

Firo the patlont that it' was not to be

broke out immediately ed of a pain in the back bone.

Dr. P. Y. Khoo, University house taken internally, and the man after the crash and 14 cars were surgeon at the hospital, diagnosed ed to understand it clearly. Witness the complaint as lumbago, and pres- saw him again at 7.30 in the even cribed glycerine belladonna. The Ing. He was in a collapsed condi patient was told to rub the liniment tion, and was incapable of answering and not to drink it, and the bottle any questions. was labelled accordingly.

Dispenser's Story.

to

When he returned to his home at

Au Kwok-lum, dispenser at the No. 238 Des Voeux Rond West, Tam was told by his friend that the mix-G.C.I stated that on July 18, ture was polson, but Tam argued patient named Tam Chuen camo that it was drinkable. What hap hit and asked for medicine. He had pened is not known. Tam returneil a prescription and pasted on the to the hospital staggering, and died label, "Polaon, Not To Be Taken,"

before handing it to the man. the next day at noon. ***

His Worship: If the "Bottle was

This story formed the subject of)

was not

a Coroner's Inquiry, which was con-not coloured, would you have put on

at the the label-If the bottle ducted by Mr. Macfadyon Central Magistracy yesterday after. blue and the medicine was not noi- noon, assisted by Messrs. V. G. Kor-onous I would not pasto a label on! ley (foreman), A. E. 8. Alves, and it 9. E. Edgar as Jurymen

He

destroyed.

Two Manchukuo officers and four private soldiers were killed and two soldfors injured serious- ly. One of the train crew was killed and two carrled off by the bandits. to be held for ransom

Communication on the line has ceased temporarily-Reuter.

SINKIANG REVOLT. Now Reported To Be Completely Suppressed. Peiping, Aug. 2. With the surrender and dis- You know what you were making bandment of the remnants of the rebel troops of Ho Tseng, the in-. up-I poured it into the bottle.

Apart from the colour of the dependence movement in South been completely did you know the contents Sinklang has bottle, were poison?Yes.

suppressed, states a Tihua tele- Therefore it does not really make grom dated July 81. auy difference what colour the bottle

Sheng Shih-tsal, the. Director.

Dr. G. . Thomas, medical officer at the Government Civil Hospital was the first witness called. stated that at 7.00 p.m. on July 18, he saw a Chinese inale In the re- ceiving room. He was then beings you still put on the label-Yos of Frontier Defence in Sinkiang, treated by the house ofcer, Dr. of Khoo. He had all the symplenis poisoning by belladonna, and was by all recognised methods, but died at 12.20 p.m. on July 14 The post mortem examination reveal- ed no external marks of violence and internally the organs were practical- ly normal. Judging by the symp tome during life, he attributed death to belladonna poisoning.

treated

Extremely Poisonous.

Replying to the Jury, witness stated that Tam spoke to him in Cantonese, bas reinforced the garrison at Replying further, witness stated he Hami from the headquarters of Mosleni Chung-ying, the told Tam the medicine was not to Ma be taken by mouth, and pointed to lender, who has fled to Rusaid.

Preparations are reported to be the label.

Foreman! Did the patient speak under way for the early restora the same dialect as the witnesa? tion of communications between

Witness: When the patient come

to me for the medicine he did not Sinkiang and China-Router. speak, but merely handed me the prescription.

His Worship: Did he do anything cinco March, when you pointed to the label?--He nodded his head and left.

Staggered In."

the deceased had been unemployed Ho was formerly a He cook, He was not depressed. returned home from the hospital on the day in question and showed wit ness the medicine.

There are other less poisonous methods of treating the complaint, said Dr. Thomas, replying to a ques. tinn by the Coroner. "I personally very rarely prescribe belladonna lini-

Wong Chak-sing, wardmaster at "I told him that it was poison," ment, because of its extremely poi- the Hospital, stated in evidence, that continued witness. He argued that sonous nature."

when Tam Chuen returned, he ap-it was drinkable and said he would be intoxicated and was go back to the hospital to make The Coroner: Would it be advle peared

Tam told him that houre." whore it is staggering. able, in your opinion,

Replying to his Worship, withena known that man is literale, 10 had been treated by one of the Unl have him treated at the clinie every versity doctors and had been given stated Tam was illiterate.

Ho

Jury'n Suggestion. day, without allowing him to take medicine, which ho took home. the poison home with him.

Dr. Thomna: If I were sure that the man was illiterate I would.

Hits Worship: Do you think that the Chinese characters tukych (pal Ron) could be made more prominent on the label?--I don't think so, sir, Larger letters would be more strike-

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had drank about one Chinese soup- The Jury, without retiring, return- spoon full. Witness saw the poisoned a verdict of death by misadven- label on the bottle. Tam appeared turo and added: "We suggest that to be fainting and Dr. Khoo, who the label be improved by the use of was in the receiving room, attended large red characters for the word 'polson, and fuller Instructions to him.

Wong Cham, a barber, of No. 236 should be given by the spenser in Des Voeux Road West, stated that the case of polsons."

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