Finding a bottlo in a field, Alfred Probert, aged six, of Leeswood, near Mold, Flintshire, took it home, thinking it contained scent. He gave it to his two-year-old sister "to play with. Tho child drew the cork and put the contents to her lips. Then she' gave a cry, and died a moment later, in her mother's arms. The bottle contained strychnine.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18685, 7 May 1926, Page 6
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