A WHOVE FAMILY POISONED
When Emil Koeppen, a widower, returned to his home in Woodland, St. Louis County, recently, he found Miss Selma Geirefbach, his housekeeper, and his son Frank, aged 10 dead from poison, and his sons, Bently, aged 8. and Robert, aged IG, unconscious in the same bedioom on tiie second floor of the house.
ft was generally known in the town that the housekeeper had been expressing regret that she was to be separated from the children, for whom she professed a strong attachment. She told neighbours that Mr Koeppen had notified that he intended to dispense with her services. Many neighbours on this account attribute the poisoning to the housekeeper. Those who do not hold fast to this theory are mystified. A nearly empty ounce bottle of patent medicine was found ill the bedroom. The medicine is manufactured in St. Louis. Its manufacturer says it would require more than two bottles of it to seriously affect one person.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2775, 22 July 1907, Page 2
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162A WHOVE FAMILY POISONED Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2775, 22 July 1907, Page 2
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