REAL "DEAD" "UNS."
STRYCHNINE IN SUGAR
CHICAGO, May 27.
Three gamblers were so anxious to "make a killing" over the Illinois Handicap, the principal race at the Aurora (111.) meeting, that they poisoned four thoroughbreds. Ten minutes before the parade news reached the track that the horses were ill, and the evidence of tampering was so plain that the race was cancelled. One mare died during the evening and the others are still sick.
The police obtained confessions from the gamblers that they had given the horses strychnine in sugar. If the poison had not acted so -quickly the gamblers expected to make a £50,000 coup.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 7
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