POISONING AGENCY
(By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright., (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, Nov. 12. With the arrest at Chicago of two women charged with murder the police! believe thev have unearthed a strange agency which made it its business to poison people for the purpose of collecting their life insurance. The bodies of two men, one woman, and three children have been ordered to be exhumed for the purpose of a search for poison in their stomachs. The police believe there are six more victims. The arrested leaders would approach a willing husband or wife whose mate was insured and suggest poisoning for the purpose of collecting the _ indemnity. WhereVer children were in the way these were also poisoned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 November 1922, Page 5
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118POISONING AGENCY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 November 1922, Page 5
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