REAL “DEAD 'UNS"
STRYCHNINE IN SUGAR. CHICAGO, May 27. Three gamblers were so anxious to “make a killing” over the Illinois Handicap, the principal race at the Aurora (Illinois) Meeting,, that they poisoned four thoroughbreds. Ten minutes lieforc the parade news reached the track that the horses were ill, and tho evidence of tampering was so plain that the race was cancelled. One mare died during the evening, and the others are still sick.
Tho police obtained confessions from the gamblers that they had given the horses strychnine in sugar. > If the poison had not acted so quickly tho gamblers expected to make a £SO,UUO coup.
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Evening Star, Issue 19273, 11 June 1926, Page 1
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