STRYCHNINE IN CAKE
MAN AND WIFE POISONED. THEIR NEPHEW' ARRESTED. ' Shortly after having breakfast on August 6 (states a Mount Gambler message to the Melbourne ‘Argus’), Mr William James Ryan and his wife, who reside in Sheperdson road, Mount Gambler, became very ill, and the symptoms indicated poisoning. Dr R. G. Burnardt found that they were suffering from tho effects of strychnine poisoning. Suspicion attached to a nephew, Clem Holt Hill, aged fifteen years, who left homo durmg the morning. The police were informed. In tho afternoon the boy arrived at Mr J. Livingstone’s house near Kongacpng, seventeen miles distant, where he and his uncle had camped Avhen trapping rabbits. Ho was taken to Mount Gambler.
Mr and .Mrs Ryan are recovering. It is supposed That tho poison av.is placed ip a cake. While camped at Kongorong with the boy some time ago, Mr Ryan suffered from poisoning, but he attributed it to grains of powder Avhich be carried iip his pocket for poisoning foxes having adhered to the stem of his pipe. Hill Avas brought before the court next morning, and charged Avith having attempted to murder William James Ryan by administering strychnine poison. The case was heard Avith closed doors, the police raising. no objection. Hill was remanded.
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Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 6
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210STRYCHNINE IN CAKE Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 6
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