A FATAL TEST
WILD EXPERIMENTS WITH POISON. (VltlTIO HUBS ASSOCJATIOH—COPIRIOHT.) SYDNEY, 4th August. An unsuccessful attempt was made to poison a family named Gray, consisting of father, mother, and adult soriy and a daughter, near Goulbourn. Tho family were about to commence- their evening meal when they heard groans in the yard, and found an employee named Richard Luke suffering from ■ strychnine poisoninj, from which ho ' died. • The family later commenced > their meal, but noticed the tea was bit- • ter, and did not drink it. An examina--1 lion revealed a quantity of strychnine in the kettle and the hot-water urn. (Received sth August, 9.30 a.m.) I SYDNEY, This Day. Luko was engaged as a labourer on 1 Gray's farm. He had performed his \ duties as usual during the day, and just before tea time Gray, jun., heard shouting, and hurried to a shed, where he found Luke stretched on a bag of wheat. He asked what was) wrong, and Luke replied that he had heard he could poison opossums with strychnined wheat, so he had tried the grain. Gray gave Luke an emetic, but he died before the arrival of a doctor. A calf and a cat were also found dead.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 31, 5 August 1925, Page 5
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A FATAL TEST
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 31, 5 August 1925, Page 5
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