POISONING CASE
ACCIDENTAL AFFAIR. ARSENIC IN PEPPER CASTOR. THREE PEOPLE ILL. (United Prees Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Received April 8, 8.56 a.m. SYDNEY, April 8. After an exhaustive investigation by detectives into the Murray family poisoning case, the affair is regarded as accidental. • It will he remembered that three adult members of the Murray family, who live at a seaside resort on the south-coast, became ill after partaking of a meal last December. The- police ascertained that a member of the family purchased a white ant exterminatpr containing arsenic three years ago, and put it in a pepper castor, with sawdust,. intending to shake in on a white ant nest. He afterwards placed the castor at the back of a shelf. Later on . the cook found the castor and. thinking that there was pepper inside, restored it to the family table. But the original, purchaser of the poison was then in bed ill, and was not aware that the castor was being regularly used by the other members of the family. The victims of the poisoning have not yet fully recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 7
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180POISONING CASE Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 7
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