POISON IN PORT WINE.
-—■■■'♦ , . . . ATTEMPT ON SOPRANO'S LIFE.
By TeleKrapl—Press Association— Oopyrteht (Rec. May 3, 10.30 p.m.) Paris, May 3. The police are investigating -an attempt to poison Madame Marguerite Carre (leading soprano of; the Opera Comique) with corrosive sublimate in port wine, Two of, Madame Carre's guests ire seriously ill. i Madame Carre also received a parcel of butter, adulterated with oxide'of zino ten days earlier. The attempts at poisoning are attributed, to professional jealousy.. '■ if' 1 " J ;' ■ [Madame Carre is-the wife of M. Albert Carre, manager of the Paris Opera Comique, the most celebrated theatre in Europe Sot the production of the lighter forms of opera. Her maiden name-was Marguerite Giraud. Her husband is an Offioer of Publio Instruction,. an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and the writer of several comedies, also the libretti of more, than ono light opera which has been produced successfully in Paris.]'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 808, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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150POISON IN PORT WINE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 808, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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