DEATH PACKET
POISONED CHRISTMAS CAKE
RACE AGAINST TIME
WASHINGTON, 30th December.
On Friday, 20th December,' William Upjohn, a baker, made nine Christmas fruit-cakes, which his wife sold next morning in their tiny store. Just before closing time, Upjohn discovered that he had mixed a pound of arsenic insecticide, for garden use, with tho sack of flour which went into the cakes.
With desperate speed they overhauled eight ?akes, which went to nearby customers, and saved them from poisoning. Tho ninth cake, howover; was sold to a stranger, ready wrapped for mailing to a distant destination, and Upjohn called in the police, who finally secured the help of tho National Pure Food administration to aid them in tracing the missing cake.
Thousands of dollars were spent advertising for the strange buyer, who yesterday read the warning in a New York paper. He hurriedly sent the Canadian address to which he had mailed the package.
By a-curious fortune, the cake was delayed in transit, and the warning telegram reached the recipient family to-day, an hour before the cake was actually delivered to them.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1930, Page 9
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