A SUDDEN ILLNESS
SYMPTOMS OF STRYCHNINE POIBONIH6
A RANGIORA MYSTERY,
[Per United Press Association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, September 26.
Surrounding the sudden and serious illness of a well-known farmer of Rangiora, and the death of his two pigs there is a mystery which the police are endeavoring to solve. Early on Wednesday evening Ben Ferguson returned home from the Addington market and had tea with his daughter. Tl.e wont out to milk the cow, but was at once seized with an illness of an alarming character. He was assisted back to the house and was attended by doctors, who found him to be suffering from the symptoms of strychnine poisoning. All through the night his life was in danger, but he was brought round and is now on the way to recovery. A neighbor who came in undertook to feed the pigs. Some of the milk from the tea table was put into the pig bucket and given the pigs. Very shortly a_fterwards two of the pigs were in a dying condition, and both succumbed within n few minutes. _ having evidently taken something poisonous. No explanation has yet been made as to how anything of a poisonous nature could have got into the food. Some of the milk from the pigs’ trough, has been taken for analysis.
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Evening Star, Issue 19055, 25 September 1925, Page 6
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215A SUDDEN ILLNESS Evening Star, Issue 19055, 25 September 1925, Page 6
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