Shop-Assistant's Death: Poison too Easily Bought in Shanghai __A pathetic case of suicide was investigated at the Netherlands Consular Court on Monday, when Mr. W. A. A. M. Daniels, the President, returned a verdict that Beatrice Georgia Chervet, aged 35, died by taking strychnine, self. administered, in a moment of physical desperation." Evidence called by Det. Sgt. MacDermotu was that the deceased, who was employed og a shop-assistant at Messrs. Whiteaway & Laidlaw's, end resided ata Carter Road boarding house, asked for a cup of coffee to be sent up to her room after tiffin on Sunday. She had evidently taken the poison in her coffee and died five or ten minutes afterwards. When the police arrived she had already succumbed. On the previous morning she had purchased a bottle containing half an ounce of the poison from J, D. Ghang's shop in Nanking Road. A farewell letter was found in her room stating that she was melancholy and broken-hearted, Deceased had married a Dutch subject seven or eight: years previously, but was formerly British, being a native of Lort Elizabeth, South Africa, In_ recording the above verdict, the President commented upon the ease with which poison' can be obtained in Shanghai At Chinese shops it could evidently be purchased in any quantity without the production of a medical certificate, Ho strongly recommended that the Consular Body should urge the Municipal Council to take steps to remedy such a state of affairs, Tap local Japanese runner, N. Yoshioka, who ran from Nagasaki to Tokio, a distance of 1,070 miles, in May, returned to Shanghai on Saturday. A banquet was given in his honour by the Japanese Athletic Association at the Japanese Club on Monday. modest life, his spare moments were ever devoted to the welfare of the entire Portuguese community.
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