POISON SUFFERERS.
FAMILY SERIOUSLY ILL. AN ACCIDENTAL OCCURRENCE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. After an exhaustive investigation by detectives into the Murray family poisoning case, the affair is regarded as accidental. The police ascertained that a member of the family three years ago purchased a white ant exterminator containing arsenic. He put it into a pepper castor with sawdust, intending to shake it on a white ants’ nest. He afterwards placed the castor at the hack of the shelf. Later the cook found the castor and, thinking it was pepper inside, restored it to the family table. The purchaser of the poison was then in bed ill, and was not aware that the pepper castor was being regularly used by the other members of the family. The victims of the poisoning have not yet fully recovered.
A Sydney cablegram dated March 4 stated: Detectives are investigating the illness of three members of the Murray family, all adults, at a seaside hamlet on the south coast of Conjoin. They became ill after a meal three months ago, since when they have partly recovered. Medical tests* and analysis revealed that they were suffering from arsenic or lead poisoning.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 151, 8 April 1930, Page 5
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