By injection of some sort, certainly.

The drug certainly was not swallowed; there was not a vestige of it in the stomach.' "'Yes,' added the doctor in reply to another question from the coroner, 'death had probably followed the injection in this case almost immediately; say within a couple of minutes, or perhaps three.

It was quite possible that the body would not have more than one quick and sudden convulsion, perhaps not that; death in such cases is absolutely sudden and crushing.' "I don't think that at the time any one in the room realized how important the doctor's statement was, a statement which, by the way, was confirmed in all its details by the district medical officer, who had conducted the postmortem.

Mrs.Hazeldene had died suddenly from an injection of prussic acid, administered no one knew how or when.

She had been travelling in a first-class railway carriage in a busy time of the day.