LONDON POLICE SENSATION.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17610, 13 November 1922, Page 7

LONDON POLICE SENSATION.

CHIEF COMMISSIONER POISONED. SEQUEL TO EXTREMISTS • THREATS.

OBr Cable—Press Association.—Copyngit.) <Au»tralian and Cable Association.) (Received November 12th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. Sir William Horwood, Chiof Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, while dressing for the Lord Mayor's banquet, suddenly collapsed at Scotland Yard. Three doctors were called in, and later it was found necessary to remove him to St. Thomas's Hospiltal. The police authorities announce that his illness is due to the malicious administration of poison in chocolates. The miscreant is not yet known. Sir William Horwood has been repeatedly threatened by a Bolshevik extremists, and there is a suspicion that they placed a corrosive poison in his luncheon. Ho narrowly escaped death. Only hia fine .physique and the fact that doctors were near at hand to give repeated administrations of oxygen saved him. His condition is still serious. Later. Sir William Horwood's condition is still dangerous. It is understood that the poißon, either arsenic or strychnine, was contained in a box of chocolates posted in London to Sir William HorwOod. He and Miss Drysdale, his confidential secretary, ate Borne of the chocolates. Miss Drysdale noticed an unpleasant taste, and ate only one. Sir William Horwood unsuspectingly ate several, and the seizure occurred fifteen minutes later.