GUITEAU'S POISONED BOUQUST.
PuoPEssoK W. C. Tildkn of Washington has submitted to tho District Attorney Corkhill liia official report of a chemical examination lie has just concluded of the poisoned bouquet that was given to Guiteau by hia sister, Mrs. 5-coville, the day beforo his execution. The report says th,it the large bud (a half opened flower) contained over five grains of " white arsenic" (arsenious acid). Tkis quantity was not only sufficient to cause death to auy human being had it been swallowed, bur, owing pi obably to ignorance was so largely in excess of a fatal dose that the intent of the person who prepared the flowers would have been defeated by emetics. The original amount of arsenic was greater than that found, as the petals of the flowers failed to retain in a dry st.'.te Borne which adhered when moist. The exhibits of tho chemical process employed are deposited in this Srmy Medical Museum, the qualitative tests were those of Keinseh, I'resenius, Yon Babo and Marsh. Mr. Corkhill says that he is now at work trying to discover who it was that poisoned the flowers,'and if the person could be discovered he would be held to answer the charge.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6566, 2 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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