Age: 44
Sex: male
Date: 20 Oct 1907
Place: Colchester
Frederick Charles Edwards died after drinking an alcoholic solution of opium.
His wife said that he had got up in the night saying that he felt queer and went downstairs for a glass of water. She said that she went downstairs too and saw him sitting down with a glass of water in his hand. She said the he then went back upstairs but started snoring loudly and when she found she was unable to wake him up she called for the doctor.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 01 November 1907
see Unsolved 1907