Deadly Baking Soda
Suspected of 33 Deaths
'WIDESPREAD PLOT SUSPECTED
Unite! Press Association.—By Electric Tcleeraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, No. 20.
Facing the grave possibility of a ■widespread poison plot designed to take the lives of many citizens the city authorities to-day began an investigation to determine how baking soda sold over the bargain counter of a large local department store had come to kill at least three persons and made hundreds of others ill and to which the deaths of 30 others may yet be traced.
The first theories advanced by the investigators were that tho soda had been packed ill barrels containing deadly insecticides, but later study showed that more than one poison was present in the contaminated soda and that these poisons were too thoroughly mixed to be accidental.
Inquiry has also begun into the sudden deaths of 30 persons from stomach disturbances since October 23 when this bulk soda was first put on sale since in three known cases of death soda was always taken for indigestion. Two distributors of socla have been arrested and efforts have been made to warn all purchasers of the danger by means of wide broadcasts over the radio.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 7
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200Deadly Baking Soda Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 7
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