POISON IN MEAT.
A SHOPKEEPER'S MISTAKE. A fortunate discovery by a shopkeeper of his error in serving a customer with salts of sorrel, a deadly poison, instead of saltpetre, lately prevented serious consequences in Glasgow. Following his regular custom a local butcher visited tho shop in order to buy some saltpetre for the purpose of preserving his meat. Ho ordered a pound, and, receiving his parcel, roturned to his shop. Soon after the customer had gono tho shopkeeper- was horrified to find that ho had given tho butcher a pound of salts of fiorrol. Ho immediately ran to tho butcher's shop, to find it closed for the night, but, determined to run no risk, he was early astir next morning waiting at tho butclior's door long boforo tho hour of oponing. Fortunately, tho butcher was ablo to givo tho assurance that none of tho poisoned meat had beon sold, altftough it ,wa3 laid out in readiness.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)
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