Poison for breakfast
On 18 January 1905, Richard House was tried at the Bunbury Quarter Sessions for attempting suicide. The middle-aged bullock driver had recently been depressed over the state of his health and work. After his wife brought him breakfast one morning, he poisoned himself by spreading strychnine on the toast. Help was called and emetics administered in time. House was found guilty and bound over to be of good behaviour and come up for sentence over the next six months if called upon to do so on a recognizance of twenty pounds and one surety of twenty pounds.
This trial report is from The West AustralianDownload from Trove
