RAT POISON TRAGEDY.
MISTAKEN FOR CANDY. SIX CHILDREN POISONED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. GRocd. 8.40 p.m.) K2W YOKE, Nov. 13. Six little girls, irmates of a Roman Catholic home, found » bo* °f rat poison while playing near s.n ash barrel in the grounds of the institution. Believing that it was candy, they ate it. One is dead and one is dying, and the others are seriously ill. A vermin exterminator, who had been working _in the buildings, left the poison, which was swept up and cast in the barrel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18247, 14 November 1922, Page 7
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