SECOND EDITION. THE POISONED SANDWICH.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 727, 14 January 1893, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. THE POISONED SANDWICH.

(per press association.) Auckland, This day. The inquest on tho body of Walter Nelson, who recently died after eating a portion of a jam sandwich, was resumed yesterday, whon J. A. Pond, the analyst, doposed that lie had found in the stomach of the deceased a quantity of arsenic, more than enough to causo death. Thoro was no evidence to show how tho arsenic got into the jar from which the grocer supplied tho family with the supposed cream of tartar. The jar full of the nrticle sold as cream of tartar was bought from Sharland and Co., and an em iloyee of that firm deposed that the cream of tartar was sent out from London, and arsenic could not havo got into the jar while it was at Sharland and Co.'s premises. Ho did not think tho firm were to blame, as the arsenic and cream of tartar were kept in separate departments. The jury returned a verdict that death wr s caused by arsenic poison contained

in a jam sandwich, aud added a rider as follows: — 'That chemists should be more careful in future.' Thej', however, informed the coroner that this was not intended as a 1 ejection upoa any particular chemists. They wished to give a general warning to those dealing with poisons.